Balancing Performance and Cost for Two-Hop Cooperative Communications: Stackelberg Game and Distributed Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Y Geng, E Liu, W Ni, R Wang, Y Liu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper aims to balance performance and cost in a two-hop wireless cooperative
communication network where the source and relays have contradictory optimization goals …

Learning to be energy-efficient in cooperative networks

D Tian, J Zhou, Z Sheng, Q Ni - IEEE Communications Letters, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cooperative communication has great potential to improve the transmit diversity in multiple
users environments. To achieve a high network-wide energy-efficient performance, this letter …

Deep deterministic policy gradient for relay selection and power allocation in cooperative communication network

Y Geng, E Liu, R Wang, Y Liu, J Wang… - IEEE Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Perfect channel state information (CSI) is usually required when considering relay selection
and power allocation in cooperative communication. However, it is difficult to get an accurate …

Hierarchical reinforcement learning for relay selection and power optimization in two-hop cooperative relay network

Y Geng, E Liu, R Wang, Y Liu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study the outage probability minimizing problem in a two-hop cooperative
relay network. To reduce outage probability, existing studies propose many schemes for …

Conflicts and incentives in wireless cooperative relaying: A distributed market pricing framework

L Chen, L Libman, J Leneutre - IEEE Transactions on Parallel …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extensive research in recent years has shown the benefits of cooperative relaying in
wireless networks, where nodes overhear and cooperatively forward packets transmitted …

Reinforcement Learning Based Robust Policy Design for Relay and Power Optimization in DF Relaying Networks

Y Geng, E Liu, R Wang, P Sun, B Lu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.09106, 2022 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we study the outage minimization problem in a decode-and-forward
cooperative network with relay uncertainty. To reduce the outage probability and improve …

Distributed relay selection and power control for multiuser cooperative communication networks using Stackelberg game

B Wang, Z Han, KJR Liu - IEEE Transactions on Mobile …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The performance in cooperative communication depends on careful resource allocation
such as relay selection and power control, but the traditional centralized resource allocation …

Game‐theoretic modeling and analysis of relay selection in cooperative wireless networks

MW Baidas, MS Bahbahani - Wireless Communications and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, distributed single relay selection in cooperative wireless networks is modeled
as a Chinese restaurant game (CRG). Specifically, the CRG is used to model strategic relay …

Distributed reinforcement learning frameworks for cooperative retransmission in wireless networks

G Naddafzadeh-Shirazi, PY Kong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We address the problem of cooperative retransmission in the media access control (MAC)
layer of a distributed wireless network with spatial reuse, where there can be multiple …

Minimizing the AoI in resource-constrained multi-source relaying systems: Dynamic and learning-based scheduling

A Zakeri, M Moltafet, M Leinonen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider a multi-source relaying system where independent sources randomly generate
status update packets which are sent to the destination with the aid of a relay through …