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Densely deployed base stations are responsible for the majority of the energy consumed in Radio access network (RAN). While these deployments are crucial to deliver the required data rate in busy hours of the day, the network can save…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Xuanyu Liang , Ahmed Al-Tahmeesschi , Swarna Chetty , Cicek Cavdar , Berk Canberk , Hamed Ahmadi

This paper presents a reinforcement learning (RL) based approach to improve the physical layer security (PLS) of an underlay cognitive radio network (CRN) over cascaded channels. These channels are utilized in highly mobile networks such as…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Deemah H. Tashman , Soumaya Cherkaoui , Walaa Hamouda

In this paper, we propose a federated deep reinforcement learning framework to solve a multi-objective optimization problem, where we consider minimizing the expected long-term task completion delay and energy consumption of IoT devices.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Sheyda Zarandi , Hina Tabassum

We consider a multicast scheme recently proposed for a wireless downlink in [1]. It was shown earlier that power control can significantly improve its performance. However for this system, obtaining optimal power control is intractable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Ramkumar Raghu , Pratheek Upadhyaya , Mahadesh Panju , Vaneet Aggarwal , Vinod Sharma

The fog radio access network (F-RAN) is a promising technology in which the user mobile devices (MDs) can offload computation tasks to the nearby fog access points (F-APs). Due to the limited resource of F-APs, it is important to design an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Lingling Zhang , Yanxiang Jiang , Fu-Chun Zheng , Mehdi Bennis , Xiaohu You

Recently, Cloud-based Radio Access Network (C-RAN) has been proposed as a potential solution to reduce energy cost in cellular networks. C-RAN centralizes the baseband processing capabilities of Base Stations (BSs) in a cloud computing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-25 Qiang Fan , Hancheng Lu , Wei Jiang , Peilin Hong , Jun Wu , Chang Wen Chen

The growing performance demands and higher deployment densities of next-generation wireless systems emphasize the importance of adopting strategies to manage the energy efficiency of mobile networks. In this demo, we showcase a framework…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Matteo Bordin , Andrea Lacava , Michele Polese , Francesca Cuomo , Tommaso Melodia

In this letter, we study the energy efficiency (EE) optimisation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) providing wireless coverage to static and mobile ground users. Recent multi-agent reinforcement learning approaches optimise the system's EE…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Babatunji Omoniwa , Boris Galkin , Ivana Dusparic

Link Adaptation (LA) that dynamically adjusts the Modulation and Coding Schemes (MCS) to accommodate time-varying channels is crucial and challenging in cellular networks. Deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based LA that learns to make…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Lizhao You , Nanqing Zhou , Guanglong Pang , Jiajie Huang , Yulin Shao , Liqun Fu

The cloud radio access network (C-RAN) provides high spectral and energy efficiency performances, low expenditures and intelligent centralized system structures to operators, which has attracted intense interests in both academia and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-30 Jian Li , Mugen Peng , Aolin Cheng , Yuling Yu , Chonggang Wang

In order to support communication and computation cooperation, we propose ME-RAN architecture, which consists of mobile edge cloud (ME) as the computation provision platform and radio access network (RAN) as the communication interface.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Kezhi Wang , Pei-Qiu Huang , Kun Yang , Cunhua Pan , Jiangzhou Wang

A novel dynamic radio-cooperation strategy is proposed for Cloud Radio Access Networks (C-RANs) consisting of multiple Remote Radio Heads (RRHs) connected to a central Virtual Base Station (VBS) pool. In particular, the key capabilities of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Tuyen X. Tran , Dario Pompili

With the rapid increase in demand for mobile data, mobile network operators are trying to expand wireless network capacity by deploying wireless local area network (LAN) hotspots on to which they can offload their mobile traffic. However,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Cheng Zhang , Zhi Liu , Bo Gu , Kyoko Yamori , Yoshiaki Tanaka

In this paper, we investigate dynamic resource allocation (DRA) problems for Internet of Things (IoT) in real-time cloud radio access networks (C-RANs), by combining gradient boosting approximation and deep reinforcement learning to solve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Yifan Luo , Jiawei Yang , Wei Xu , Kezhi Wang , Marco Di Renzo

In this paper, we study the stochastic optimization of cloud radio access networks (C-RANs) by joint remote radio head (RRH) activation and beamforming in the downlink. Unlike most previous works that only consider a static optimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Jian Li , Jingxian Wu , Mugen Peng , Ping Zhang

Energy Efficiency (EE) is a big issue in 5th Generation Wireless Communications (5G) on condition that the number of access User Equipments (UEs) are exploding and more antennas should be equipped in one Base Station (BS). In EE studies,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Di Zhang , Zhenyu Zhou , Keping Yu , Takuro Sato

In quasi-static wireless networks characterized by infrequent changes in the transmission schedules of user equipment (UE), malicious jammers can easily deteriorate network performance. Accordingly, a key challenge in these networks is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Abdul Basit , Muddasir Rahim , Tri Nhu Do , Nadir Adam , Georges Kaddoum

Deep reinforcement learning for high dimensional, hierarchical control tasks usually requires the use of complex neural networks as functional approximators, which can lead to inefficiency, instability and even divergence in the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Yuguang Yang

In this paper, a Deep Q-Network (DQN) based multi-agent multi-user power allocation algorithm is proposed for hybrid networks composed of radio frequency (RF) and visible light communication (VLC) access points (APs). The users are capable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Bekir Sait Ciftler , Abdulmalik Alwarafy , Mohamed Abdallah , Mounir Hamdi

In this paper, we propose a distributed reinforcement learning (RL) technique called distributed power control using Q-learning (DPC-Q) to manage the interference caused by the femtocells on macro-users in the downlink. The DPC-Q leverages…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-03-20 Hussein Saad , Amr Mohamed , Tamer ElBatt