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We address the problem of multiuser scheduling with partial channel information in a multi-cell environment. The scheduling problem is formulated jointly with the ARQ based channel learning process and the intercell interference mitigating…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-04-13 Sugumar Murugesan , Philip Schniter

Restless bandits are a class of sequential resource allocation problems concerned with allocating one or more resources among several alternative processes where the evolution of the process depends on the resource allocated to them. Such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-26 Nima Akbarzadeh , Aditya Mahajan

The Whittle index, which characterizes optimal policies for controlling certain single restless bandit projects (a Markov decision process with two actions: active and passive) is the basis for a widely used heuristic index policy for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-05 José Niño-Mora

We consider the problem of source sampling and transmission scheduling for age-of-information minimization in a system consisting of multiple energy harvesting (EH) sources and a sink node. At each time, one of the sources is selected by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Akanksha Jaiswal , Arpan Chattopadhyay

We study the Whittle index learning algorithm for restless multi-armed bandits (RMAB). We first present Q-learning algorithm and its variants -- speedy Q-learning (SQL), generalized speedy Q-learning (GSQL) and phase Q-learning (PhaseQL).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Parvish Kakarapalli , Devendra Kayande , Rahul Meshram

We study a resource allocation problem with varying requests, and with resources of limited capacity shared by multiple requests. It is modeled as a set of heterogeneous Restless Multi-Armed Bandit Problems (RMABPs) connected by constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-30 Jing Fu , Bill Moran , Peter G. Taylor

We investigate the problem of co-designing computation and communication in a multi-agent system (e.g. a sensor network or a multi-robot team). We consider the realistic setting where each agent acquires sensor data and is capable of local…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Vishrant Tripathi , Luca Ballotta , Luca Carlone , Eytan Modiano

We study a problem of information gathering in a social network with dynamically available sources and time varying quality of information. We formulate this problem as a restless multi-armed bandit (RMAB). In this problem, information…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Varun Mehta , Rahul Meshram , Kesav Kaza , S. N. Merchant

In this paper, a novel Deep Q-Network (DQN) based scheduling method to optimize delay time and fairness among entanglement requests in quantum repeater networks is proposed. The scheduling of requests determines which pairs of end nodes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Gongyu Ni , Lester Ho , Holger Claussen

The restless multi-armed bandit (RMAB) framework is a popular approach to solving resource allocation problems in networked systems. In this paper, we study optimal resource allocation in RMABs facing unknown and non-stationary dynamics.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Md Kamran Chowdhury Shisher , Vishrant Tripathi , Mung Chiang , Christopher G. Brinton

The Whittle index, which characterizes optimal policies for controlling certain single restless bandit projects (a Markov decision process with two actions: active and passive) is the basis for a widely used heuristic index policy for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-06 José Niño-Mora

We propose a variant of the Age of Information (AoI) metric called Channel-Aware Age of Information (CA-AoI). Unlike AoI, CA-AoI takes into account the channel conditions between the source and the intended destination to compute the "age"…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-12 Bhishma Dedhia , Sharayu Moharir

This paper examines the average age minimization problem where only a fraction of the network users can transmit simultaneously over unreliable channels. Finding the optimal scheduling scheme, in this case, is known to be challenging.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Saad Kriouile , Mohamad Assaad , Ali Maatouk

Restless multi-armed bandits (RMABs) provide a scalable framework for sequential decision-making under uncertainty, but classical formulations assume binary actions and a single global budget. Real-world settings, such as healthcare, often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Himadri S. Pandey , Kai Wang , Gian-Gabriel P. Garcia

The trade-off between the cost of acquiring and processing data, and uncertainty due to a lack of data is fundamental in machine learning. A basic instance of this trade-off is the problem of deciding when to make noisy and costly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-30 Christopher R. Dance , Tomi Silander

This paper studies restless multi-armed bandit (RMAB) problems with unknown arm transition dynamics but with known correlated arm features. The goal is to learn a model to predict transition dynamics given features, where the Whittle index…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Kai Wang , Shresth Verma , Aditya Mate , Sanket Shah , Aparna Taneja , Neha Madhiwalla , Aparna Hegde , Milind Tambe

We consider a network with multiple sources and a base station that send time-sensitive information to remote clients. The Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) captures the freshness of the informative pieces of status update packets at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Muratcan Ayik , Elif Tugce Ceran , Elif Uysal

This paper investigates the Restless Multi-Armed Bandit (RMAB) framework under individual penalty constraints to address resource allocation challenges in dynamic wireless networked environments. Unlike conventional RMAB models, our model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Nida Zamir , I-Hong Hou

The multi-armed restless bandit framework allows to model a wide variety of decision-making problems in areas as diverse as industrial engineering, computer communication, operations research, financial engineering, communication networks…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-27 Urtzi Ayesta , Manu K. Gupta , Ina Maria Verloop

We consider the restless bandits with general state space under partial observability with two observational models: first, the state of each bandit is not observable at all, and second, the state of each bandit is observable only if it is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-25 Nima Akbarzadeh , Aditya Mahajan