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Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been increasingly employed to handle the dynamic and complex resource management in network slicing. The deployment of DRL policies in real networks, however, is complicated by heterogeneous cell…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Tianlun Hu , Qi Liao , Qiang Liu , Georg Carle

In this paper, we consider resource allocation for edge computing in internet of things (IoT) networks. Specifically, each end device is considered as an agent, which makes its decisions on whether offloading the computation tasks to the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-06 Xiaolan Liu , Zhijin Qin , Yue Gao

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms can solve complex sequential decision tasks successfully. However, they have a major drawback of having poor sample efficiency which can often be tackled by knowledge reuse. In Multi-Agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Ercüment İlhan , Jeremy Gow , Diego Perez-Liebana

Edge computing faces unprecedented resource orchestration challenges from multi-dimensional heterogeneity across device architectures, diverse task requirements in CPU-intensive, GPU-intensive, I/O-intensive, and dynamic network conditions.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jianyong Zhu , Hao Chen , Juan Zhang , Fangda Guo , Albert Y. Zomaya , Renyu Yang

Federated Edge Learning (FEL), an emerging distributed Machine Learning (ML) paradigm, enables model training in a distributed environment while ensuring user privacy by using physical separation for each user data. However, with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Jingbo Zhang , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan , Qiang Fan

Scheduled batch jobs have been widely used on the asynchronous computing platforms to execute various enterprise applications, including the scheduled notifications and the candidate pre-computation for the modern recommender systems. It is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Yang Liu , Juan Wang , Zhengxing Chen , Ian Fox , Imani Mufti , Jason Sukumaran , Baokun He , Xiling Sun , Feng Liang

In recent times, Volunteer Edge-Cloud (VEC) has gained traction as a cost-effective, community computing paradigm to support data-intensive scientific workflows. However, due to the highly distributed and heterogeneous nature of VEC…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Motahare Mounesan , Mauro Lemus , Hemanth Yeddulapalli , Prasad Calyam , Saptarshi Debroy

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a promising solution to the computation-intensive, low-latency rendering tasks of the metaverse. However, how to optimally allocate limited communication and computation resources at the edge to a large…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Zijian Long , Haiwei Dong , Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

Traffic Engineering (TE) is a basic building block of the Internet. In this paper, we analyze whether modern Machine Learning (ML) methods are ready to be used for TE optimization. We address this open question through a comparative…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Guillermo Bernárdez , José Suárez-Varela , Albert López , Bo Wu , Shihan Xiao , Xiangle Cheng , Pere Barlet-Ros , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio

This paper introduces a novel reinforcement learning (RL) approach to scheduling mixed-criticality (MC) systems on processors with varying speeds. Building upon the foundation laid by [1], we extend their work to address the non-preemptive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Muhammad El-Mahdy , Nourhan Sakr , Rodrigo Carrasco

A key functionality of emerging connected autonomous systems such as smart transportation systems, smart cities, and the industrial Internet-of-Things, is the ability to process and learn from data collected at different physical locations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Konstantinos Gatsis

In mobile edge computing (MEC), resource scheduling is crucial to task requests' performance and service providers' cost, involving multi-layer heterogeneous scheduling decisions. Existing schedulers typically adopt static timescales to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yijun Hao , Shusen Yang , Fang Li , Yifan Zhang , Shibo Wang , Xuebin Ren

Modern edge-cloud systems face challenges in efficiently scaling resources to handle dynamic and unpredictable workloads. Traditional scaling approaches typically rely on static thresholds and predefined rules, which are often inadequate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Jovan Prodanov , Blaž Bertalanič , Carolina Fortuna , Shih-Kai Chou , Matjaž Branko Jurič , Ramon Sanchez-Iborra , Jernej Hribar

Large robot fleets are now common in warehouses and other logistics settings, where small control gains translate into large operational impacts. In this article, we address task scheduling for lifelong Multi-Agent Pickup-and-Delivery…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Johannes Gaber , Meshal Alharbi , Daniele Gammelli , Gioele Zardini

Judicious resource allocation can effectively enhance federated learning (FL) training performance in wireless networks by addressing both system and statistical heterogeneity. However, existing strategies typically rely on block fading…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Jiacheng Wang , Le Liang , Hao Ye , Chongtao Guo , Shi Jin

To address the challenges of high resource dynamism and intensive task concurrency in microservice systems, this paper proposes an adaptive resource scheduling method based on the A3C reinforcement learning algorithm. The scheduling problem…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Yang Wang , Tengda Tang , Zhou Fang , Yingnan Deng , Yifei Duan

Clustered federated Multitask learning is introduced as an efficient technique when data is unbalanced and distributed amongst clients in a non-independent and identically distributed manner. While a similarity metric can provide client…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Abdullatif Albaseer , Mohamed Abdallah , Ala Al-Fuqaha , Abegaz Mohammed , Aiman Erbad , Octavia A. Dobre

Federated Learning (FL) has evolved as a promising technique to handle distributed machine learning across edge devices. A single neural network (NN) that optimises a global objective is generally learned in most work in FL, which could be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Sawan Singh Mahara , Shruti M. , B. N. Bharath , Akash Murthy

Modern robotic manufacturing requires collision-free coordination of multiple robots to complete numerous tasks in shared, obstacle-rich workspaces. Although individual tasks may be simple in isolation, automated joint task allocation,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Matthew Lai , Keegan Go , Zhibin Li , Torsten Kroger , Stefan Schaal , Kelsey Allen , Jonathan Scholz

This paper presents TAG, an automatic system to derive optimized DNN training graph and its deployment onto any device topology, for expedited training in device- and topology- heterogeneous ML clusters. We novelly combine both the DNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Shiwei Zhang , Xiaodong Yi , Lansong Diao , Chuan Wu , Siyu Wang , Wei Lin