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Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs) are expected to consist of multi-tier, heterogeneous terrestrial and non-terrestrial devices, where effective coordination is essential to fully unlock the complementary capabilities of diverse systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Jiajun He , Han Yu , Yiran Guo , Xinping Yi , Fan Liu , Hing Cheung So , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou , Giuseppe Caire

This paper addresses the challenge of decentralized task allocation within heterogeneous multi-agent systems operating under communication constraints. We introduce a novel framework that integrates graph neural networks (GNNs) with a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Lavanya Ratnabala , Aleksey Fedoseev , Robinroy Peter , Dzmitry Tsetserukou

Autonomous Intersection Management (AIM) provides a signal-free intersection scheduling paradigm for Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs). Distributed learning method has emerged as an attractive branch of AIM research. Compared with…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Guanzhou Li , Jianping Wu , Yujing He

Autonomous deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) supporting next-generation communication networks requires efficient trajectory planning methods. We propose a new end-to-end reinforcement learning (RL) approach to UAV-enabled data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Harald Bayerlein , Mirco Theile , Marco Caccamo , David Gesbert

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is regarded as a promising technology in the sixth-generation communication. However, the antenna gain is always affected by the environment when unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are served as MEC platforms,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Can Cui , Ziye Jia , Chao Dong , Zhuang Ling , Jiahao You , Qihui Wu

In this paper, we study the trajectory and resource allocation design for downlink energy-efficient secure unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication systems, where an information UAV assisted by a multi-antenna jammer UAV serves multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Yuanxin Cai , Zhiqiang Wei , Ruide Li , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

With the rapid growth in data demand and stringent latency requirements of modern applications has driven significant interest in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations as an emerging solution for global Internet coverage. However,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Mudassar Liaq , Mahyar Tajeri , Peng Hu

The low-altitude economy (LAE) is rapidly advancing toward intelligence, connectivity, and coordination, bringing new challenges in dynamic airspace management, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operation, and security management. Existing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Guiyang Luo , Jinglin Li , Qixun Zhang , Zhiyong Feng , Quan Yuan , Yijing Lin , Hui Zhang , Nan Cheng , Ping Zhang

Traffic congestion in urban road networks leads to longer trip times and higher emissions, especially during peak periods. While the Shortest Path First (SPF) algorithm is optimal for a single vehicle in a static network, it performs poorly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Fazel Arasteh , Arian Haghparast , Manos Papagelis

We formulate offloading of computational tasks from a dynamic group of mobile agents (e.g., cars) as decentralized decision making among autonomous agents. We design an interaction mechanism that incentivizes such agents to align private…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Jing Tan , Ramin Khalili , Holger Karl , Artur Hecker

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

Deriving robust control policies for realistic urban navigation scenarios is not a trivial task. In an end-to-end approach, these policies must map high-dimensional images from the vehicle's cameras to low-level actions such as steering and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Gustavo Claudio Karl Couto , Eric Aislan Antonelo

Traffic optimization challenges, such as load balancing, flow scheduling, and improving packet delivery time, are difficult online decision-making problems in wide area networks (WAN). Complex heuristics are needed for instance to find…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Shan Sun , Mariam Kiran , Wei Ren

Intelligent wireless networks have long been expected to have self-configuration and self-optimization capabilities to adapt to various environments and demands. In this paper, we develop a novel distributed hierarchical deep reinforcement…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-06 Kaiwen Yu , Chonghao Zhao , Gang Wu , Geoffrey Ye Li

The integration of a near-space information network (NSIN) with the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is envisioned to significantly enhance the communication performance of future wireless communication systems by proactively…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Puguang An , Peng Yang , Xianbin Cao , Kun Guo , Yue Gao , Tony Q. S. Quek

Nonprehensile manipulation, such as pushing objects across cluttered environments, presents a challenging control problem due to complex contact dynamics and long-horizon planning requirements. In this work, we propose HeRD, a hierarchical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Steven Caro , Stephen L. Smith

In the era of 6G Air-Ground Integrated Networks (AGINs), Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are pivotal for providing on-demand wireless coverage in mission-critical environments, such as post-disaster rescue operations. However, traditional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Chuan-Chi Lai , Chi Jai Choy

We present a framework leveraging a novel variant of the model-based diffusion algorithm to minimize the time required for a redundant dual-arm robot configuration to follow a desired relative Cartesian path. Our prior work proposed a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jushan Chen , Jonathan Fried , Santiago Paternain

Task decomposition has shown promise in complex cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) tasks, which enables efficient hierarchical learning for long-horizon tasks in dynamic and uncertain environments. However, learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yanda Zhu , Yuanyang Zhu , Daoyi Dong , Caihua Chen , Chunlin Chen

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), due to their low cost and high flexibility, have been widely used in various scenarios to enhance network performance. However, the optimization of UAV trajectories in unknown areas or areas without…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yuhao Pan , Xiucheng Wang , Zhiyao Xu , Nan Cheng , Wenchao Xu , Jun-jie Zhang