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Joint allocation of spectrum and user association is considered for a large cellular network. The objective is to optimize a network utility function such as average delay given traffic statistics collected over a slow timescale. A key…

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This paper addresses the slicing of Radio Access Network (RAN) resources by multiple tenants, e.g., virtual wireless operators and service providers. We consider a criterion for dynamic resource allocation amongst tenants, based on a…

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Communication enables coordination in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), but many real-world applications, e.g., search-and-rescue with drone swarms, operate under severe bandwidth constraints. Many communication architectures still…

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The increasing number of wireless devices operating in unlicensed spectrum motivates the development of intelligent adaptive approaches to spectrum access. We consider decentralized contention-based medium access for base stations (BSs)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Akash Doshi , Srinivas Yerramalli , Lorenzo Ferrari , Taesang Yoo , Jeffrey G. Andrews

Wireless local area networks (WLANs) manage multiple access points (APs) and assign scarce radio frequency resources to APs for satisfying traffic demands of associated user devices. This paper considers the channel allocation problem in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Zhan Gao , Yulin Shao , Deniz Gunduz , Amanda Prorok

The rapid evolution of cellular networks has introduced groundbreaking technologies, including large and distributed antenna arrays and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces in terrestrial networks (TNs), as well as aerial and space-based…

The use of unlicensed spectrum for cellular systems to mitigate spectrum scarcity has led to the development of intelligent adaptive approaches to spectrum access that improve upon traditional carrier sensing and listen-before-talk methods.…

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We study multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) in a stochastic network of agents. The objective is to find localized policies that maximize the (discounted) global reward. In general, scalability is a challenge in this setting because…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Yiheng Lin , Guannan Qu , Longbo Huang , Adam Wierman

The integration of non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) and terrestrial networks (TNs) is fundamental for extending connectivity to rural and underserved areas that lack coverage from traditional cellular infrastructure. However, this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Alessandro Traspadini , Marco Giordani , Michele Zorzi

Uplink-downlink decoupling in which users can be associated to different base stations in the uplink and downlink of heterogeneous small cell networks (SCNs) has attracted significant attention recently. However, most existing works focus…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Mingzhe Chen , Walid Saad , Changchuan Yin

This paper introduces a novel approach to radio resource allocation in multi-cell wireless networks using a fully scalable multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) framework. A distributed method is developed where agents control…

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Tensor train (TT) decomposition provides a space-efficient representation for higher-order tensors. Despite its advantage, we face two crucial limitations when we apply the TT decomposition to machine learning problems: the lack of…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have delivered a remarkable performance in many tasks of computer vision. However, over-parameterized representations of popular architectures dramatically increase their computational complexity and storage…

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Cognitive satellite-terrestrial networks (STNs) have been recognized as the promising architecture for addressing spectrum scarcity in the next generation communication networks. In this letter, we investigate the secure transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Bin Li , Zesong Fei , Xiaoming Xu , Zheng Chu

While deep learning (DL)-based methods have achieved remarkable success in continuous wireless resource allocation, efficient solutions for problems involving discrete variables remain challenging. This is primarily due to the zero-gradient…

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Cooperation between satellite and terrestrial wireless networks promises great potential in meeting fast-growing demands for ubiquitous communications coverage. To tackle spectrum scarcity, spectrum sharing is studied for a hybrid…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yanmin Wang , Wei Feng , Yunfei Chen , Yongxu Zhu , Shidong Zhou , Cheng-Xiang Wang

With the increasing number of user equipment (UE) and data demands, denser access points (APs) are being employed. Resource allocation problems have been extensively researched with interference treated as noise. It is well understood that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Jing Li , Dongning Guo

In this paper we consider graph-coloring problems, an important subset of general constraint satisfaction problems that arise in wireless resource allocation. We constructively establish the existence of fully decentralized learning-based…

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In multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), the centralized training with decentralized execution (CTDE) framework has gained widespread adoption due to its strong performance. However, the further development of CTDE faces two key…

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