arXiv:2608. 05340v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) hold strong potential for enabling ultra-reliable low-latency communication for time-sensitive applications, such as eXtended Reality (XR).
By Marcos Carvalho, Fatih Temiz, Shavbo Salehi, Melike Erol-Kantarci, Daniel F. Macedo
The paper proposes a deployment‑focused framework for deadline‑constrained network control, introducing the Effective Congestion (EC) metric family and Uniform Path Grouping (UPG) heuristic to better capture traffic urgency and balance load. It integrates these with a Multi‑Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning architecture (MADRL EC (p*)) that combines a distributed scheduler and a centralized RL router. A unified training objective merges live‑reward, pre‑collected‑reward, and policy‑imitation terms, leading to the Model‑Guided Annealed Reinforcement Learning (MGA‑RL) protocol built on DDPG, which generalizes offline‑to‑online learning for demonstration‑driven training.
By Vincenzo Norman Vitale, Mohammad Solki, Antonia Maria Tulino, Andreas F. Molisch, Jaime Llorca
arXiv:2608. 05346v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Time-sensitive networking (TSN) is increasingly integrated into mobile edge computing (MEC) to support applications with stringent latency requirements, such as extended reality (XR).
By Marcos Carvalho, Fatih Temiz, Shavbo Salehi, Melike Erol-Kantarci, Daniel F. Macedo
arXiv:2501. 12942v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Effective multi-user delay-constrained scheduling is crucial in various real-world applications, including embodied AI, instant messaging, live streaming, and data center management, where efficient resource allocation is required among users with diverse delay sensitivities.
By Zhuoran Li, Ruishuo Chen, Hai Zhong, Longbo Huang
arXiv:2607. 05272v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inference serving systems must balance throughput and latency under bursty, heterogeneous workloads, yet the industry standard remains static batching policies that require manual tuning and cannot adapt to shifting traffic.
By Ruslan Sharifullin
The paper proposes a hierarchical Open Radio Access Network (O‑RAN) control framework for tethered millimeter‑wave UAV‑mounted 5G base stations (gNBs). A Non‑Real‑Time RIC application jointly manages UAV placement and slice budgets, while a Near‑Real‑Time RIC application allocates per‑user resources using a permutation‑equivariant DeepSets Soft Actor‑Critic scheduler. This two‑level controller improves eMBB service‑level agreement satisfaction by up to 17 % and URLLC on‑time delivery by up to 42 % compared with conventional schedulers.
By Alireza Mohammadhosseini, Fatemeh Afghah
arXiv:2607. 18286v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transit signal priority (TSP) requires balancing competing objectives: reducing bus delay while limiting adverse impacts on non-bus traffic and avoiding extreme waits for a subset of vehicles.
By Philip-Roman Adam, Stefanie Schmidtner
Inference serving systems must balance throughput and latency under bursty, heterogeneous workloads, yet the industry standard remains static batching policies that require manual tuning and cannot adapt to shifting traffic. We investigate whether reinforcement learning (RL) can learn adaptive batching and routing policies that outperform these heuristics, training REINFORCE and PPO agents on a discrete-event simulator validated against queuing theory and production traces (Azure Functions, BurstGPT).
arXiv:2609.17193v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-powered agentic AI services increasingly demand low-latency inference, motivating the deployment of LLMs across distributed...
By Zhen Li, Jun Cai, Haoran Gao, An Li, Tan Li
The paper introduces MiLAAP, an attention‑based framework that predicts channel occupancy and node motion in channel‑hopping communication systems without exchanging state information. By leveraging self‑attention and multi‑head attention, each node passively observes local channel activity to forecast interference patterns and mobility, achieving near‑perfect prediction accuracy across varied mobility scenarios and demonstrating zero‑shot generalizability to new channel‑sequence periods.
By Yung-Fu Chen, Anish Arora
DART-FL is a multitask federated learning framework designed for edge devices that must balance online inference and model training under limited resources. It dynamically allocates resources between inference and training based on current inference backlog and service capacity, then distributes remaining training capacity among tasks using a queue‑aware scheduler that adjusts loss weights. Experiments on image classification datasets with synthetic and real workloads show that DART‑FL adapts to bursty inference demand, improving accuracy for high‑demand tasks while preserving overall multitask performance.
By Yiming Xie, Pinrui Yu, Geng Yuan, Xue Lin, Ningfang Mi
SlackDrive is a pre‑inference compute allocator that dynamically selects the compute budget for each driving control step by reusing the realized latency from previous inferences. By profiling a small set of discrete budgets once, it estimates the current compute state online and chooses the highest‑utility budget that stays within the admissible latency envelope. On the NAVSIM v2 benchmark with DriveDreamer‑Policy, SlackDrive boosts latency‑constrained EPDMS performance by 21.7% compared to the best baseline, while full‑budget and token‑pruning approaches exceed the latency limits under runtime contention.
By Xiaohuan Pei, Hengguang Zhou, Yuanhao Ban, Justin Cui, Jiaqi Feng, Haoyu Xie, Tao Huang, Pichao Wang, Yanchao Yang, Cho-Jui Hsieh