The paper proposes a fairness‑guided deep Q‑network (DQN) to control the transmission opportunity (TXOP) of NR‑U in unlicensed spectrum, aiming to balance coexistence with Wi‑Fi. Two reward designs, Q1 and Q2, target different fairness regimes: Q1 enforces strict per‑node throughput balance, while Q2 allows a broader fairness band and rewards throughput gains within it. The DQN policies are benchmarked against 3GPP LBT, a multi‑armed‑bandit approach, utility‑fairness tabular Q‑learning, and a fixed‑TXOP baseline, with experiments across four priority classes and asymmetric populations measuring aggregate throughput, Jain fairness, and concave throughput utility.
arXiv:2605. 00457v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The coexistence of NR-U and Wi-Fi in the unlicensed spectrum introduces a challenging resource management problem, where heterogeneous channel access mechanisms can lead to unbalanced spectrum utilization and severe Wi-Fi performance degradation.
arXiv:2606. 00266v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A long-standing challenge in distributed wireless systems is ensuring efficient and fair random channel access.
arXiv:2606. 04328v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Future wireless networks demand rapid adaptation to highly heterogeneous environments and dynamic task configurations, necessitating a shift from conventional rule-based and optimization-driven radio resource management (RRM) toward artificial intelligence (AI)-driven RRM.
The article proposes a Quantum Reinforcement Learning (QRL) algorithm to reduce energy consumption in 5G and beyond networks by optimizing base station (BS) operations while maintaining quality of service. QRL uses quantum principles such as superposition and entanglement via parameterized quantum circuits, achieving faster convergence than traditional Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) and Q‑Learning. Simulations show that QRL can significantly lower energy usage even with highly dynamic user equipment (UE) associations.
arXiv:2609.00284v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Emerging 6G wireless networks are expected to operate across diverse deployment scenarios, where variations in network topology, user mobility, traff...
arXiv:2608. 01745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Maximizing throughput under proportional fairness in dense wireless networks requires jointly managing user association, scheduling, base station (BS) activation, and handover control under hard finite-horizon energy and handover budgets, which induces a fundamental tension between BS-side energy management and user-side handover regulation.
FedQoS is a federated learning framework that predicts future QoS failure probabilities for candidate access links in dynamic indoor‑outdoor environments, enabling reliable access‑node selection without centralizing user data. Each access node trains locally on its network logs, while a global QoS‑risk predictor is built through federated aggregation. Simulations using physics‑based synthetic datasets show that FedQoS reduces QoS‑failure rates compared to signal‑based and historical‑QoS heuristics, achieving near‑centralized performance even under non‑IID data conditions.
This paper studies Restless Multi‑Armed Bandits with individual penalty constraints for dynamic wireless networks, allowing each arm to have distinct performance limits such as energy, activation, or age of information. It introduces the Penalty‑Optimal Whittle (POW) index, which depends only on an arm’s transition kernel and its constraints, making it computable offline and independent of system‑wide parameters. The authors prove the POW index policy is asymptotically optimal, present a deep reinforcement learning method to learn the index online, and show through simulations that it outperforms existing policies.
arXiv:2607. 11075v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The choice of Modulation and Coding (MCS) type for a particular channel condition is made through link adaptation (LA) algorithms that operate at the MAC layer.
The paper introduces a foundation model–aided actor‑critic algorithm to boost multi‑agent reinforcement learning (MARL) for optimizing random access (RA) wireless networks. By embedding a foundation model into a consensus‑based decentralized MARL framework, the authors provide convergence analysis that matches conventional MARL under local reward exchanges and nonlinear value function approximations. Numerical experiments demonstrate that this FM‑based approach markedly accelerates MARL training for RA network optimization.
The paper studies optimal placement of millimeter-wave base stations in a realistic, non-convex campus layout using deep reinforcement learning. It compares four DRL methods—single-agent DQN, multi-agent partitioned DQN, single-agent DDPG, and multi-agent partitioned DDPG—and finds that the multi-agent DDPG approach achieves full coverage, a Jain's fairness index of 0.94, and superior performance in dense scenarios with 400 users. The multi-agent DDPG also converges more efficiently than single-agent methods.
arXiv:2604.14908v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study downlink beam and rate adaptation in a multi-user mmWave MISO system where multiple base stations (BSs), each using analog beamformi...