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Underwater acoustic (UWA) communications generally rely on cognitive radio (CR)-based ad-hoc networks due to challenges such as long propagation delay, limited channel resources, and high attenuation. To address the constraints of limited…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Minwoo Kim , Youngchol Choi , Yeongjun Kim , Eojin Seo , Hyun Jong Yang

Chirp signals have been exploited extensively in radar and underwater acoustic (UW-A) communication systems for their robustness to multipath and superior correlation properties. We present a multiuser multicarrier chirp-division…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-05 Song-Wen Huang , Dimitris A. Pados

Setting up the future Internet of Things (IoT) networks will require to support more and more communicating devices. We prove that intelligent devices in unlicensed bands can use Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) learning algorithms to improve…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Rémi Bonnefoi , Lilian Besson , Christophe Moy , Emilie Kaufmann , Jacques Palicot

Communication at terahertz (THz) frequency bands is a promising solution for achieving extremely high data rates in next-generation wireless networks. While the THz communication is conventionally envisioned for short-range wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Arian Ahmadi , Omid Semiari

Enterprise Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) consist of multiple Access Points (APs) covering a given area. Finding a suitable network configuration able to maximize the performance of enterprise WLANs is a challenging task given the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Álvaro López-Raventós , Boris Bellalta

Establishing and maintaining millimeter-wave (mmWave) links is challenging due to the changing environment and the high sensibility of mmWave signal to user mobility and channel conditions. MmWave link configuration problems often involve a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-03 Yi Zhang , Robert W. Heath

In underwater acoustic (UWA) communication, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is commonly employed to mitigate the inter-symbol interference (ISI) caused by delay spread. However, path-specific Doppler effects in UWA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Xiaoquan You , Hengyu Zhang , Xuehan Wang , Jintao Wang

In recent years, the integration of communication and control systems has gained significant traction in various domains, ranging from autonomous vehicles to industrial automation and beyond. Multi-armed bandit (MAB) algorithms have proven…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-16 Hiba Dakdouk , Mohamed Sana , Mattia Merluzzi

Recognizing implicit visual and textual patterns is essential in many real-world applications of modern AI. However, tackling long-tail pattern recognition tasks remains challenging for current pre-trained foundation models such as LLMs and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Minxue Tang , Yangyang Yu , Aolin Ding , Maziyar Baran Pouyan , Taha Belkhouja , Yujia Bao

The problem of underwater acoustic (UWA) channel estimation is the non-uniform sparse representation that may increase the algorithm complexity and the required time. A mathematical framework utilizing l21 constraint with two-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Amer Aljanabi , Mohanad Abd Shehab , Osama Alluhaibi , Qasim Zeeshan Ahmed , Pavlos Lazaridis

Physical-layer network coding (PNC) can increase end-to-end throughput in bi-directional multi-hop underwater acoustic (UWA) networks. However, multipath delay spread and Doppler-induced inter-carrier interference (ICI) in UWA channels can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Gewei Zhang , Deqing Wang , Lizhao You , Xiangming Cai , Liqun Fu

Long propagation delays in underwater acoustic networks (UWANs) cause spatio-temporal uncertainty, constraining channel utilization in medium access control (MAC) protocols. Node mobility within autonomous underwater vehicle scenarios…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Huaisheng Ye , Xiaowen Ye , Liqun Fu

We propose an Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) algorithm that exploits the structure of a hierarchical codebook of beamforming vectors using a best-arm identification Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) approach for initial alignment and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Nathan Blinn , Matthieu Bloch

Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols rely on neighbor and environment information to design collision-free access rules for Underwater Acoustic Networks (UANs). Acquiring this information suffers from high communication overhead due to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiani Guo , Bingwen Huangfu , Shanshan Song , Nan Sun , Miao Pan , Guangjie Han

In this paper, we employ multiple UAVs to accelerate data transmissions from ground users (GUs) to a remote base station (BS) via the UAVs' relay communications. The UAVs' intermittent information exchanges typically result in delays in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Che Chen , Lanhua Li , Shimin Gong , Yu Zhao , Yuming Fang , Dusit Niyato

As underwater human activities are increasing, the demand for underwater communication service presents a significant challenge. Existing underwater diver communication methods face hurdles due to inherent disadvantages and complex…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Tinglong Deng , Hang Tao , Xinxiang Wang , Yinyan Wang , Hanjiang Luo

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

We introduce a novel family of adaptive robust equalizers for highly challenging underwater acoustic (UWA) channel equalization. Since the underwater environment is highly non-stationary and subjected to impulsive noise, we use adaptive…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Dariush Kari , Muhammed Omer Sayin , Suleyman Serdar Kozat

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

Despite the significant interests and many progresses in decentralized multi-player multi-armed bandits (MP-MAB) problems in recent years, the regret gap to the natural centralized lower bound in the heterogeneous MP-MAB setting remains…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-02 Chengshuai Shi , Wei Xiong , Cong Shen , Jing Yang