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Can multi-agent communication pressure extract discrete, compositional representations of invisible physical properties from frozen video features? We show that agents communicating through a Gumbel-Softmax bottleneck with iterated learning…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Tomek Kaszyński

This article examines the queueing performance of communication systems that transmit encoded data over unreliable channels. A fading formulation suitable for wireless environments is considered where errors are caused by a discrete channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-16 Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr , Henry D. Pfister , Jean-Francois Chamberland

We study reliable communication in uncoordinated vehicular communication from the perspective of Shannon theory. Our system model for the information transmission is that of an Arbitrarily Varying Channel (AVC): One sender-receiver pair…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Christian Arendt , Janis Nötzel , Holger Boche

The problem of communication and state estimation is considered in the context of channels with actiondependent states. Given the message to be communicated, the transmitter chooses an action sequence that affects the formation of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-07 Chiranjib Choudhuri , Urbashi Mitra

In this paper we study the inherent trade-off between time and communication complexity for the distributed consensus problem. In our model, communication complexity is measured as the maximum data throughput (in bits per second) sent…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-10-07 Federico Rossi , Marco Pavone

Coordinating multiple autonomous agents to reach a target region while avoiding collisions and maintaining communication connectivity is a core problem in multi-agent systems. In practice, agents have a limited communication range. Thus,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Shiyu Cheng , Luyao Niu , Bhaskar Ramasubramanian , Andrew Clark , Radha Poovendran

We examine the problem of transmission control, i.e., when to transmit, in distributed wireless communications networks through the lens of multi-agent reinforcement learning. Most other works using reinforcement learning to control or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Collin Farquhar , Prem Sagar Pattanshetty Vasanth Kumar , Anu Jagannath , Jithin Jagannath

This paper studies the problem of secure communication over broadcast channels under the individual secrecy constraints. That is, the transmitter wants to send two independent messages to two legitimate receivers in the presence of an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Yanling Chen , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Aydin Sezgin

One salient feature of cooperative formation tracking is its distributed nature that relies on localized control and information sharing over a sparse communication network. That is, a distributed control manner could be prone to malicious…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-07 Zhi Feng , Guoqiang Hu

This paper studies the consensus problem for multiagent systems with transmission constraints. A novel model of multiagent systems is proposed where the information transmissions between agents are disturbed by irregular distortions or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Xiaotian Wang , Housheng Su

Wide band systems operating over multipath channels may spread their power over bandwidth if they use duty cycle. Channel uncertainty limits the achievable data rates of power constrained wide band systems; Duty cycle transmission reduces…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Dana Porrat , David N. C. Tse , Serban Nacu

Quantum capacity, as the ultimate transmission rate of quantum communication, is characterized by regularized coherent information. In this work, we reformulate approximations of the quantum capacity by operator space norms and give both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Li Gao , Marius Junge , Nicholas LaRacuente

Traditional radio systems are strictly co-designed on the lower levels of the OSI stack for compatibility and efficiency. Although this has enabled the success of radio communications, it has also introduced lengthy standardization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-16 Colin de Vrieze , Shane Barratt , Daniel Tsai , Anant Sahai

Two-way communication is prevalent and its fundamental limits are first studied in the point-to-point setting by Shannon [1]. One natural extension is a two-way interference channel (IC) with four independent messages: two associated with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Changho Suh , Jaewoong Cho , David Tse

Motivated by applications in intelligent highway systems, the paper studies the problem of guiding mobile agents in a one-dimensional formation to their desired relative positions. Only coarse information is used which is communicated from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-04-08 Claudio De Persis , Hui Liu , Ming Cao

This paper examines the maximum code rate achievable by a data-driven communication system over some unknown discrete memoryless channel in the finite blocklength regime. A class of channel codes, called learning-based channel codes, is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Neil Irwin Bernardo , Jingge Zhu , Jamie Evans

Traditional channel capacity based on the discrete spatial dimensions mismatches the continuous electromagnetic fields. For the wireless communication system in a limited region, the spatial discretization may results in information loss…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Zhongzhichao Wan , Jieao Zhu , Zijian Zhang , Linglong Dai , Chan-Byoung Chae

We address density control problems for large-scale multi-agent systems in leader-follower settings, where a group of controllable leaders must steer a population of followers toward a desired spatial distribution. Unlike prior work, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Beniamino Di Lorenzo , Gian Carlo Maffettone , Mario di Bernardo

This paper studies the tracking control problem of nonlinear networked and quantized control systems (NQCSs) with communication delays. The desired trajectory is generated by a reference system. The communication network is to guarantee the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Wei Ren , Junlin Xiong

We derive bounds on the noncoherent capacity of a very general class of multiple-input multiple-output channels that allow for selectivity in time and frequency as well as for spatial correlation. The bounds apply to peak-constrained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-01-29 Ulrich G. Schuster , Giuseppe Durisi , Helmut Bölcskei , H. Vincent Poor