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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

MmWaves have been envisioned as a promising direction to provide Gbps wireless access. However, they are susceptible to high path losses and blockages, which directional antennas can only partially mitigate. That makes mmWave networks…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Bibo Zhang , Ilario Filippini

Multi-arm bandit (MAB) algorithms have been used to learn optimal beams for millimeter wave communication systems. Here, the complexity of learning the optimal beam linearly scales with the number of beams, leading to high latency when…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Akanksha Sneh , Sumit Darak , Shobha Sundar Ram , Manjesh Hanawal

In this paper, we propose and evaluate different learning strategies based on Multi-Arm Bandit (MAB) algorithms. They allow Internet of Things (IoT) devices to improve their access to the network and their autonomy, while taking into…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Remi Bonnefoi , Lilian Besson , Julio Manco-Vasquez , Christophe Moy

In next generation of Wi-Fi networks Multiple Access Point Coordination (MAPC) is poised to significantly enhance the network performance by enabling a set of Access Points (APs) to coordinate with each other through advanced coordinating…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Ziru Chen , Salvatore Talarico , Qing Xia , Xihan Peng , Xing Hao , Lin X. Cai

In this paper, we consider a transfer Reinforcement Learning (RL) problem in continuous state and action spaces, under unobserved contextual information. For example, the context can represent the mental view of the world that an expert…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Chenyu Liu , Yan Zhang , Yi Shen , Michael M. Zavlanos

The significance of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications has been ever increased as connected and autonomous vehicles get more emergent in practice. The key challenge is the dynamicity: each vehicle needs to recognize the frequent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-07 Seungmo Kim , Byung-Jun Kim

We study the restless contextual multi-play multi-armed bandit (MP-MAB) problem for channel allocation in the opportunity spectrum access (OSA) scenario. Most existing MP-MAB methods are impractical for real-world OSA systems as they assume…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ruiyu Li , Guangxia Li , Xiao Lu , Jichao Liu , Yan Jin

A cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)faces several key challenges concerning connectivity and energy efficiency. Through a learning-based strategy, we propose a general novel multi-armed bandit (MAB) algorithm to reduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-22 M. Mahdi Azari , Atefeh Hajijamali Arani , Fernando Rosas

WiFi densification leads to the existence of multiple overlapping coverage areas, which allows user stations (STAs) to choose between different Access Points (APs). The standard WiFi association method makes the STAs select the AP with the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Marc Carrascosa , Boris Bellalta

With wireless devices increasingly forming a unified smart network for seamless, user-friendly operations, random access (RA) medium access control (MAC) design is considered a key solution for handling unpredictable data traffic from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Myeung Suk Oh , Zhiyao Zhang , FNU Hairi , Alvaro Velasquez , Jia Liu

In this paper, we apply an multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) framework allowing the base station (BS) and the user equipments (UEs) to jointly learn a channel access policy and its signaling in a wireless multiple access scenario.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Mateus P. Mota , Alvaro Valcarce , Jean-Marie Gorce

MIMO technology has enabled spatial multiple access and has provided a higher system spectral efficiency (SE). However, this technology has some drawbacks, such as the high number of RF chains that increases complexity in the system. One of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Yasaman Abdollahian , Ehsan Tohidi , Martin Kasparick , Li Wang , Ahmet Hasim Gokceoglu , Slawomir Stanczak

A multi-user multi-armed bandit (MAB) framework is used to develop algorithms for uncoordinated spectrum access. The number of users is assumed to be unknown to each user. A stochastic setting is first considered, where the rewards on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Meghana Bande , Venugopal V. Veeravalli

The exponential growth of wireless devices and stringent reliability requirements of emerging applications demand fundamental improvements in distributed channel access mechanisms for unlicensed bands. Current Wi-Fi systems, which rely on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jinzhe Pan , Jingqing Wang , Yuehui Ouyang , Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang

This article addresses the challenge of optimizing handover (HO) in next-generation wireless networks by integrating Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS), predicting received signal power, and utilizing learning-based decision-making.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-10 Ainna Yue Moreno-Locubiche , Josep Vidal , Olga Muñoz-Medina , Margarita Cabrera-Bean

Multi-access point coordination (MAPC) is a key technology for enhancing throughput in next-generation Wi-Fi within dense overlapping basic service sets. However, existing MAPC protocols rely on static, protocol-defined rules, which limits…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yifan Fan , Le Liang , Peng Liu , Xiao Li , Ziyang Guo , Qiao Lan , Shi Jin , Wen Tong

The dynamic allocation of spectrum in 5G / 6G networks is critical to efficient resource utilization. However, applying traditional deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is often infeasible due to its immense sample complexity and the safety…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Oluwaseyi Giwa , Tobi Awodunmila , Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin , Ahsan Bilal , Muhammad Ali Jamshed

The multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem is an active learning framework that aims to select the best among a set of actions by sequentially observing rewards. Recently, it has become popular for a number of applications over wireless networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Osama A. Hanna , Lin F. Yang , Christina Fragouli

Recently Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been applied as an anti-adversarial remedy in wireless communication networks. However, studying the RL-based approaches from the adversary's perspective has received little attention. Additionally,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Juncheng Dong , Suya Wu , Mohammadreza Sultani , Vahid Tarokh