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Owing to the resource-constrained feature of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, offloading tasks from IoT devices to the nearby mobile edge computing (MEC) servers can not only save the energy of IoT devices but also reduce the response time…

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In this paper, the downlink packet scheduling problem for cellular networks is modeled, which jointly optimizes throughput, fairness and packet drop rate. Two genie-aided heuristic search methods are employed to explore the solution space.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Chen Xu , Jian Wang , Tianhang Yu , Chuili Kong , Yourui Huangfu , Rong Li , Yiqun Ge , Jun Wang

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

Vehicular Mobile Edge Computing (VEC) drives the future by enabling low-latency, high-efficiency data processing at the very edge of vehicular networks. This drives innovation in key areas such as autonomous driving, intelligent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Mahsa Paknejad , Parisa Fard Moshiri , Murat Simsek , Burak Kantarci , Hussein T. Mouftah

With the explosive demands for data, content delivery networks are facing ever-increasing challenges to meet end-users quality-of-experience requirements, especially in terms of delay. Content can be migrated from surrogate servers to local…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Sepideh Malektaji , Amin Ebrahimzadeh , Halima Elbiaze , Roch Glitho , Somayeh Kianpishe

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a class of artificial intelligence algorithms being used to design adaptive optimal controllers through online learning. This paper presents a model-free, real-time, data-efficient Q-learning-based algorithm…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Ali Aalipour , Alireza Khani

In scheduling problems common in the industry and various real-world scenarios, responding in real-time to disruptive events is essential. Recent methods propose the use of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to learn policies capable of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Imanol Echeverria , Maialen Murua , Roberto Santana

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a key enabler to reduce the latency of vehicular network. Due to the vehicles mobility, their requested services (e.g., infotainment services) should frequently be migrated across different MEC servers…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Amine Abouaomar , Zoubeir Mlika , Abderrahime Filali , Soumaya Cherkaoui , Abdellatif Kobbane

We introduce SeamlessFlow, a server based reinforcement learning (RL) framework that addresses two core challenges in industrial scale RL: (1) decoupling RL training from the complex execution flow of agents; (2) maximizing GPU utilization…

Deep-learning-based intelligent services have become prevalent in cyber-physical applications including smart cities and health-care. Deploying deep-learning-based intelligence near the end-user enhances privacy protection, responsiveness,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Sina Shahhosseini , Dongjoo Seo , Anil Kanduri , Tianyi Hu , Sung-soo Lim , Bryan Donyanavard , Amir M. Rahmani , Nikil Dutt

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is a promising approach to solve complex control tasks by learning policies through interactions with the environment. However, the training of DRL policies requires large amounts of training experiences,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Hongpeng Cao , Mirco Theile , Federico G. Wyrwal , Marco Caccamo

Multi-user delay constrained scheduling is important in many real-world applications including wireless communication, live streaming, and cloud computing. Yet, it poses a critical challenge since the scheduler needs to make real-time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Pihe Hu , Ling Pan , Yu Chen , Zhixuan Fang , Longbo Huang

With the continuous growth of mobile data and the unprecedented demand for computing power, resource-constrained edge devices cannot effectively meet the requirements of Internet of Things (IoT) applications and Deep Neural Network (DNN)…

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Federated learning has gained popularity as a means of training models distributed across the wireless edge. The paper introduces delay-aware hierarchical federated learning (DFL) to improve the efficiency of distributed machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Frank Po-Chen Lin , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Nicolò Michelusi , Christopher Brinton

The rapid growth of global data volumes has created a demand for scalable distributed systems that can maintain a high quality of service. Data replication is a widely used technique that provides fault tolerance, improved performance and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Amir Najjar , Riad Mokadem , Jean-Marc Pierson

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has achieved groundbreaking successes in a wide variety of robotic applications. A natural consequence is the adoption of this paradigm for safety-critical tasks, where human safety and expensive hardware…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Davide Corsi , Raz Yerushalmi , Guy Amir , Alessandro Farinelli , David Harel , Guy Katz

Online Network Resource Allocation (ONRA) for service provisioning is a fundamental problem in communication networks. As a sequential decision-making under uncertainty problem, it is promising to approach ONRA via Reinforcement Learning…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Bahador Bakhshi , Josep Mangues-Bafalluy

Mapping deep neural networks (DNNs) to hardware is critical for optimizing latency, energy consumption, and resource utilization, making it a cornerstone of high-performance accelerator design. Due to the vast and complex mapping space,…

As mobile networks embrace the 5G era, the interest in adopting Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms to handle challenges in ultra-low-latency and high throughput scenarios increases. Simultaneously, the advent of packetized fronthaul…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Jean Martins , Igor Almeida , Ricardo Souza , Silvia Lins

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms have recently made significant strides in improving network performance. Nonetheless, their practical use is still limited in the absence of safe exploration and safe decision-making. In the…

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