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We investigate the downlink scheduling problem under Markovian ON/OFF fading channels, where the instantaneous channel state information is not directly accessible, but is revealed via ARQ-type feedback. The scheduler can exploit the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Wenzhuo Ouyang , Atilla Eryilmaz , Ness B. Shroff

We consider a class of restless multi-armed bandit problems (RMBP) that arises in dynamic multichannel access, user/server scheduling, and optimal activation in multi-agent systems. For this class of RMBP, we establish the indexability and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-11-13 Keqin Liu , Qing Zhao

We consider finite state restless multi-armed bandit problem. The decision maker can act on M bandits out of N bandits in each time step. The play of arm (active arm) yields state dependent rewards based on action and when the arm is not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Vishesh Mittal , Rahul Meshram , Deepak Dev , Surya Prakash

We consider the problem of scheduling packet transmissions in a wireless network of users while minimizing the energy consumed and the transmission delay. A challenge is that transmissions of users that are close to each other mutually…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Karthik GVB , Vivek S. Borkar , Gaurav S. Kasbekar

Age-of-Information (AoI) is a critical metric for network applications. Existing works mostly address optimization with homogeneous AoI requirements, which is different from practice. In this work, we optimize uplink scheduling for an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-14 Shuang Wu , Xiaoqiang Ren , Qing-Shan Jia , Karl Henrik Johansson , Ling Shi

Motivated by applications such as machine repair, project monitoring, and anti-poaching patrol scheduling, we study intervention planning of stochastic processes under resource constraints. This planning problem has previously been modeled…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Arpita Biswas , Jackson A. Killian , Paula Rodriguez Diaz , Susobhan Ghosh , Milind Tambe

Energy demands from data centers have surged and stressed the grid in recent years. Electric grids require balancing supply and demand every second, motivating demand response (reduction) from large loads, including data centers. This can…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yifu Ding , Zixi Chen , Thomas Magnanti

We consider a wireless network in which a source node needs to transmit a large file to a destination node. The direct wireless link between the source and the destination is assumed to be blocked. Multiple candidate relays are available to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Mandar R. Nalavade , Ravindra S. Tomar , Gaurav S. Kasbekar

We study a quantum switch that creates shared end-to-end entangled quantum states to multiple sets of users that are connected to it. Each user is connected to the switch via an optical link across which bipartite Bell-state entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Thirupathaiah Vasantam , Don Towsley

The Whittle index for restless bandits (two-action semi-Markov decision processes) provides an intuitively appealing optimal policy for controlling a single generic project that can be active (engaged) or passive (rested) at each decision…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-22 José Niño-Mora

We study a sampling and transmission scheduling problem for multi-source remote estimation, where a scheduler determines when to take samples from multiple continuous-time Gauss-Markov processes and send the samples over multiple channels…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Tasmeen Zaman Ornee , Yin Sun

A novel reinforcement learning algorithm is introduced for multiarmed restless bandits with average reward, using the paradigms of Q-learning and Whittle index. Specifically, we leverage the structure of the Whittle index policy to reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Konstantin E. Avrachenkov , Vivek S. Borkar

The successful launch of electric vehicles (EVs) depends critically on the availability of convenient and economic charging facilities. The problem of scheduling of large-scale charging of EVs by a service provider is considered. A Markov…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-09 Zhe Yu , Yunjian Xu , Lang Tong

We study the problem of planning restless multi-armed bandits (RMABs) with multiple actions. This is a popular model for multi-agent systems with applications like multi-channel communication, monitoring and machine maintenance tasks, and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Abheek Ghosh , Dheeraj Nagaraj , Manish Jain , Milind Tambe

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) offloads computational tasks from wireless devices to network edge, and enables real-time information transmission and computing. Most existing work concerns a small-scale synchronous MEC system. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Yizhen Xu , Peng Cheng , Zhuo Chen , Ming Ding , Branka Vucetic , Yonghui Li

Quantum Internetworking is a recent field that promises numerous interesting applications, many of which require the distribution of entanglement between arbitrary pairs of users. This work deals with the problem of scheduling in an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Paolo Fittipaldi , Anastasios Giovanidis , Frédéric Grosshans

Age of information is a new concept that characterizes the freshness of information at end devices. This paper studies the age of information from a scheduling perspective. We consider a wireless broadcast network where a base-station…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Yu-Pin Hsu

Restless Multi-Armed Bandits (RMABs) offer a powerful framework for solving resource constrained maximization problems. However, the formulation can be inappropriate for settings where the limiting constraint is a reward threshold rather…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-06 R. Teal Witter , Lisa Hellerstein

Whittle index policy is a heuristic to the intractable restless multi-armed bandits (RMAB) problem. Although it is provably asymptotically optimal, finding Whittle indices remains difficult. In this paper, we present Neural-Q-Whittle, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Guojun Xiong , Jian Li

Modular quantum computing provides a scalable approach to overcome the limitations of monolithic quantum architectures by interconnecting multiple Quantum Processing Units (QPUs) through a quantum network. In this work, we explore and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Shahrooz Pouryousef , Reza Nejabati , Don Towsley , Ramana Kompella , Eneet Kaur