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Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communication is becoming critical for the enhanced reliability of autonomous vehicles (AVs). However, the uncertainties in the road-traffic and AVs' wireless connections can severely impair timely…
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Federated Learning (FL) has gained significant attention in recent years due to its distributed nature and privacy preserving benefits. However, a key limitation of conventional FL is that it learns and distributes a common global model to…
Over the last few years, the DRL paradigm has been widely adopted for 5G and beyond network optimization because of its extreme adaptability to many different scenarios. However, collecting and processing learning data entail a significant…
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