no code implementations • 20 Jun 2023 • Mohamed K. AbdelAziz, Mohammed S. Elbamby, Sumudu Samarakoon, Mehdi Bennis
Learning a navigation policy along with a communication protocol in a MARL environment is highly complex due to the huge state space to be explored.
no code implementations • 2 Jun 2023 • Charbel Bou Chaaya, Sumudu Samarakoon, Mehdi Bennis
Equivalently, this corresponds to a game played between multiple RISs, as learning agents, in heterogeneous environments.
1 code implementation • 3 May 2023 • Malith Gallage, Rafaela Scaciota, Sumudu Samarakoon, Mehdi Bennis
This work presents a harmonic design of autonomous guided vehicle (AGV) control, edge intelligence, and human input to enable autonomous transportation in industrial environments.
no code implementations • 7 Dec 2022 • Sarah Karmous, Nadia Adem, Mohammed Atiquzzaman, Sumudu Samarakoon
In this survey, we discuss the pros and cons of deep space optical communications (DSOC) and review physical and networking characteristics.
no code implementations • 4 Oct 2021 • Beatriz Soret, Lam D. Nguyen, Jan Seeger, Arne Bröring, Chaouki Ben Issaid, Sumudu Samarakoon, Anis El Gabli, Vivek Kulkarni, Mehdi Bennis, Petar Popovski
An Intelligent IoT Environment (iIoTe) is comprised of heterogeneous devices that can collaboratively execute semi-autonomous IoT applications, examples of which include highly automated manufacturing cells or autonomously interacting harvesting machines.
no code implementations • 20 Aug 2021 • Chaouki Ben Issaid, Sumudu Samarakoon, Mehdi Bennis, H. Vincent Poor
In this article, we study the problem of robust reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided downlink communication over heterogeneous RIS types in the supervised learning setting.
no code implementations • 12 Jun 2021 • Madhusanka Manimel Wadu, Sumudu Samarakoon, Mehdi Bennis
In this article we investigate the problem of client scheduling and resource block (RB) allocation to enhance the performance of model training using FL, over a pre-defined training duration under imperfect channel state information (CSI) and limited local computing resources.
no code implementations • 4 May 2021 • Sumudu Samarakoon, Jihong Park, Mehdi Bennis
In this paper, the problem of robust reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) system design under changes in data distributions is investigated.
no code implementations • 22 Dec 2020 • Sumudu Samarakoon, Mehdi Bennis, Walid Saad, Merouane Debbah
Results show that the accuracy of detecting channel blocking events is higher using the model-based method for low to moderate reliability targets requiring low sample complexity.
Survival Analysis Networking and Internet Architecture
no code implementations • 7 Dec 2020 • Mohamed K. Abdel-Aziz, Cristina Perfecto, Sumudu Samarakoon, Mehdi Bennis, Walid Saad
Simulation results show the ability of the RL agents to efficiently learn the vehicles' association, RB allocation, and message content selection while maximizing vehicles' satisfaction in terms of the received sensory information.
no code implementations • 9 Nov 2020 • Tamara Alshammari, Sumudu Samarakoon, Anis Elgabli, Mehdi Bennis
This article deals with the problem of distributed machine learning, in which agents update their models based on their local datasets, and aggregate the updated models collaboratively and in a fully decentralized manner.
no code implementations • 9 Oct 2020 • George C. Alexandropoulos, Sumudu Samarakoon, Mehdi Bennis, Merouane Debbah
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are recently gaining remarkable attention as a low-cost, hardware-efficient, and highly scalable technology capable of offering dynamic control of electro-magnetic wave propagation.
no code implementations • 6 Aug 2020 • Jihong Park, Sumudu Samarakoon, Anis Elgabli, Joongheon Kim, Mehdi Bennis, Seong-Lyun Kim, Mérouane Debbah
Machine learning (ML) is a promising enabler for the fifth generation (5G) communication systems and beyond.
no code implementations • 30 Apr 2020 • Ella Peltonen, Mehdi Bennis, Michele Capobianco, Merouane Debbah, Aaron Ding, Felipe Gil-Castiñeira, Marko Jurmu, Teemu Karvonen, Markus Kelanti, Adrian Kliks, Teemu Leppänen, Lauri Lovén, Tommi Mikkonen, Ashwin Rao, Sumudu Samarakoon, Kari Seppänen, Paweł Sroka, Sasu Tarkoma, Tingting Yang
We present edge computing along with other 6G enablers as a key component to establish the future 2030 intelligent Internet technologies as shown in this series of 6G White Papers.
no code implementations • 12 Mar 2020 • Hamza Khan, M. Majid Butt, Sumudu Samarakoon, Philippe Sehier, Mehdi Bennis
Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a key for the fifth generation (5G) and beyond wireless communication systems owing to higher spectrum efficiency, spatial gains, and energy efficiency.
no code implementations • 3 Feb 2020 • Madhusanka Manimel Wadu, Sumudu Samarakoon, Mehdi Bennis
In this work, we propose a novel joint client scheduling and resource block (RB) allocation policy to minimize the loss of accuracy in federated learning (FL) over wireless compared to a centralized training-based solution, under imperfect channel state information (CSI).
Networking and Internet Architecture
no code implementations • 22 Jan 2020 • Hamza Khan, Anis Elgabli, Sumudu Samarakoon, Mehdi Bennis, Choong Seon Hong
Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication is a growing area of communication with a variety of use cases.
no code implementations • 27 Nov 2019 • Mohamed K. Abdel-Aziz, Sumudu Samarakoon, Mehdi Bennis, Walid Saad
Therefore, to effectively allocate power and RBs, the proposed approach allows the network to actively learn its dynamics by balancing a tradeoff between minimizing the probability that the vehicles' AoI exceeds a predefined threshold and maximizing the knowledge about the network dynamics.
no code implementations • 7 Dec 2018 • Jihong Park, Sumudu Samarakoon, Mehdi Bennis, Mérouane Debbah
), requires a novel paradigm change calling for distributed, low-latency and reliable ML at the wireless network edge (referred to as edge ML).
no code implementations • 21 Jul 2018 • Sumudu Samarakoon, Mehdi Bennis, Walid Saad, Merouane Debbah
In this paper, the problem of joint power and resource allocation (JPRA) for ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) in vehicular networks is studied.
Information Theory Information Theory
no code implementations • 11 May 2018 • Sumudu Samarakoon, Mehdi Bennis, Walid Saad, Merouane Debbah
It is shown that FL enables the proposed distributed method to estimate the tail distribution of queues with an accuracy that is very close to a centralized solution with up to 79\% reductions in the amount of data that need to be exchanged.
no code implementations • 27 Aug 2013 • Sumudu Samarakoon, Mehdi Bennis, Walid Saad, Matti Latva-aho
In this paper, a novel, backhaul-aware approach to interference management in wireless small cell networks is proposed.