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Multicast/broadcast services (MBS) are able to provide video services for many users simultaneously. Fixed amount of bandwidth allocation for all of the MBS videos is not effective in terms of bandwidth utilization, overall forced call…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury , Tuan Nguyena , Young-Il Kimb , Won Ryub , Yeong Min Jang

The Data Distribution Service (DDS) is an Object Management Group (OMG) standard for high-performance and real-time systems. DDS is a data-centric middleware based on the publish-subscribe communication pattern and is used in many…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Kaleem Peeroo , Peter Popov , Vladimir Stankovic

We study how to scale distributed bandit submodular coordination under realistic communication constraints in bandwidth, data rate, and connectivity. We are motivated by multi-agent tasks of active situational awareness in unknown,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Zirui Xu , Vasileios Tzoumas

Latency is inherent in almost all real-world networked applications. In this paper, we propose a distributed allocation strategy over multi-agent networks with delayed communications. The state of each agent (or node) represents its share…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Wei Jiang , Themistoklis Charalambous

In this paper, we study delayed regulated state/output synchronization for discrete-time homogeneous and heterogeneous networks of multi-agent systems (MAS) subject to unknown, non-uniform and arbitrarily large communication delays. A delay…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Donya Nojavanzadeh , Zhenwei Liu , Ali Saberi , Anton A. Stoorvogel

The social metaverse is a growing digital ecosystem that blends virtual and physical worlds. It allows users to interact socially, work, shop, and enjoy entertainment. However, privacy remains a major challenge, as immersive interactions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Zijian Long , Haopeng Wang , Haiwei Dong , Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

This paper proposes an adaptive multi-mode transmission strategy to improve the spectral efficiency achieved in the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) broadcast channel with delayed and quantized channel state information. The adaptive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jun Zhang , Marios Kountouris , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Robert W. Heath

In multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL), agents can communicate with one another to perform a task in a coordinated manner. When multiple tasks are involved, agents can also leverage knowledge from one task to improve learning in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Changxi Zhu , Mehdi Dastani , Shihan Wang

In this paper we propose a novel consensus protocol for discrete-time multi-agent systems (MAS), which solves the dynamic consensus problem on the max value, i.e., the dynamic max-consensus problem. In the dynamic max-consensus problem to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Diego Deplano , Mauro Franceschelli , Alessandro Giua

We consider the problem of the limited-bandwidth communication for multi-agent reinforcement learning, where agents cooperate with the assistance of a communication protocol and a scheduler. The protocol and scheduler jointly determine…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Rundong Wang , Xu He , Runsheng Yu , Wei Qiu , Bo An , Zinovi Rabinovich

Semantic communications represent a new paradigm of next-generation networking that shifts bit-wise data delivery to conveying the semantic meanings for bandwidth efficiency. To effectively accommodate various potential downstream tasks at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Fupei Guo , Achintha Wijesinghe , Songyang Zhang , Zhi Ding

Semantic communication enhances transmission efficiency by conveying semantic information rather than raw input symbol sequences. Task-oriented semantic communication is a variant that tries to retains only task-specific information, thus…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Xuesong Wang , Mo Li , Xingyan Shi , Zhaoqian Liu , Shenghao Yang

Decentralized Multi-agent Learning (DML) enables collaborative model training while preserving data privacy. However, inherent heterogeneity in agents' resources (computation, communication, and task size) may lead to substantial variations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Seyed Mahmoud Sajjadi Mohammadabadi , Lei Yang , Feng Yan , Junshan Zhang

This paper proposes a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) MAC slot allocation protocol with efficient bandwidth usage in wireless sensor networks and Internet of Things (IoTs). The developed protocol has two primary components: a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Hrishikesh Dutta , Amit Kumar Bhuyan , Subir Biswas

The Distributed Messaging Systems (DMSs) used in IoT systems require timely and reliable data dissemination, which can be achieved through configurable parameters. However, the high-dimensional configuration space makes it difficult for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Zhuangwei Kang , Yogesh D. Barve , Shunxing Bao , Abhishek Dubey , Aniruddha Gokhale

Deep reinforcement learning algorithms have recently been used to train multiple interacting agents in a centralised manner whilst keeping their execution decentralised. When the agents can only acquire partial observations and are faced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Emanuele Pesce , Giovanni Montana

Communication is essential for coordination among humans and animals. Therefore, with the introduction of intelligent agents into the world, agent-to-agent and agent-to-human communication becomes necessary. In this paper, we first study…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Varun Bhatt , Michael Buro

Communication is an effective mechanism for coordinating the behaviors of multiple agents, broadening their views of the environment, and to support their collaborations. In the field of multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL),…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Changxi Zhu , Mehdi Dastani , Shihan Wang

This article investigates the problem of dynamic spectrum access for canonical wireless networks, in which the channel states are time-varying. In the most existing work, the commonly used optimization objective is to maximize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Yuhua Xu , Jinlong Wang , Qihui Wu , Jianchao Zheng , Liang Shen , Alagan Anpalagan

The multitask diffusion LMS is an efficient strategy to simultaneously infer, in a collaborative manner, multiple parameter vectors. Existing works on multitask problems assume that all agents respond to data synchronously. In several…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Roula Nassif , Cédric Richard , André Ferrari , Ali H. Sayed