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Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) has gained tremendous attention from industry and academia with decentralized baseband functions across multiple processing units located at different places. However, the ever-expanding scope of RANs,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Haiyuan Li , Amin Emami , Karcius Assis , Antonis Vafeas , Ruizhi Yang , Reza Nejabati , Shuangyi Yan , Dimitra Simeonidou

Open Radio Access Network (O RAN) disaggregates conventional RAN into interoperable components, enabling flexible resource allocation, energy savings, and agile architectural design. In legacy deployments, the binding between logical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Sebastian Racedo , Brigitte Jaumard , Oscar Delgado , Meysam Masoudi

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 growing complexity and capacity demands for mobile networks necessitate innovative techniques for optimizing resource usage. Meanwhile, recent breakthroughs have brought Reinforcement Learning (RL) into the domain of continuous control…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Vegard Edvardsen , Gard Spreemann , Jeriek Van den Abeele

Reinforcement Learning (RL) in Traffic Signal Control (TSC) faces significant hurdles in real-world deployment due to limited generalization to dynamic traffic flow variations. Existing approaches often overfit static patterns and use…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Sheng-You Huang , Hsiao-Chuan Chang , Yen-Chi Chen , Ting-Han Wei , I-Hau Yeh , Sheng-Yao Kuan , Chien-Yao Wang , Hsuan-Han Lee , I-Chen Wu

Recent works have validated the possibility of improving energy efficiency in radio access networks (RANs), achieved by dynamically turning on/off some base stations (BSs). In this paper, we extend the research over BS switching operations,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-04-07 Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Xianfu Chen , Jacques Palicot , Honggang Zhang

Effective patient monitoring is vital for timely interventions and improved healthcare outcomes. Traditional monitoring systems often struggle to handle complex, dynamic environments with fluctuating vital signs, leading to delays in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Thanveer Shaik , Xiaohui Tao , Lin Li , Haoran Xie , Hong-Ning Dai , Feng Zhao , Jianming Yong

Distributed Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) algorithms has attracted a surge of interest lately mainly due to the recent advancements of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Conventional Model-Based (MB) or Model-Free (MF) RL algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Mohammad Salimibeni , Arash Mohammadi , Parvin Malekzadeh , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

There is a growing interest in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) as the first steps towards building general intelligent agents that learn to make low and high-level decisions in non-stationary complex environments in the presence…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Marco Jerome Gasparrini , Ricard Solé , Martí Sánchez-Fibla

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) extends (single-agent) reinforcement learning (RL) by introducing additional agents and (potentially) partial observability of the environment. Consequently, algorithms for solving MARL problems…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Yilun Zhou , Derrik E. Asher , Nicholas R. Waytowich , Julie A. Shah

Radio access networks (RANs) in monolithic architectures have limited adaptability to supporting different network scenarios. Recently, open-RAN (O-RAN) techniques have begun adding enormous flexibility to RAN implementations. O-RAN is a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Myeung Suk Oh , Anindya Bijoy Das , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Taejoon Kim , David J. Love , Christopher G. Brinton

Cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) promises uniform high performance across the network, but also brings a high energy cost due to joint transmission from distributed radio units (RUs) and centralized processing in the cloud.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Zilin Ge , Ozan Alp Topal , Irshad Ahmad Meer , Pei Xiao , Cicek Cavdar

We aim to develop off-policy DRL algorithms that not only exceed state-of-the-art performance but are also simple and minimalistic. For standard continuous control benchmarks, Soft Actor-Critic (SAC), which employs entropy maximization,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Che Wang , Yanqiu Wu , Quan Vuong , Keith Ross

This paper explores the application of the Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) algorithm within a Distributional Reinforcement Learning setting and introduces an implementation of such algorithm named Cram\'er-based Distributional Soft Actor-Critic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Vanya Aziz , Ivo Nowak , E. M. T Hendrix

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms for continuous action spaces are known to be brittle toward hyperparameters as well as \cut{being}sample inefficient. Soft Actor Critic (SAC) proposes an off-policy deep actor critic algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Patrick Nadeem Ward , Ariella Smofsky , Avishek Joey Bose

Many recent successful off-policy multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms for cooperative partially observable environments focus on finding factorized value functions, leading to convoluted network structures. Building on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Raphaël Avalos , Mathieu Reymond , Ann Nowé , Diederik M. Roijers

Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) offers an open, programmable architecture for next-generation wireless networks, enabling advanced control through AI-based applications on the near-Real-Time RAN Intelligent Controller (near-RT RIC).…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Ryan Barker , Alireza Ebrahimi Dorcheh , Tolunay Seyfi , Fatemeh Afghah

This paper proposes a novel approach for Asset-Liability Management (ALM) by employing continuous-time Reinforcement Learning (RL) with a linear-quadratic (LQ) formulation that incorporates both interim and terminal objectives. We develop a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yilie Huang

Collaborative autonomous multi-agent systems covering a specified area have many potential applications, such as UAV search and rescue, forest fire fighting, and real-time high-resolution monitoring. Traditional approaches for such coverage…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Xinyu Zhao , Razvan C. Fetecau , Mo Chen

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) is an increasingly important research field that can model and control multiple large-scale autonomous systems. Despite its achievements, existing multi-agent learning methods typically involve…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Kailash Gogineni , Peng Wei , Tian Lan , Guru Venkataramani