Energy-efficiency oriented traffic offloading in wireless networks: A brief survey and a learning approach for heterogeneous cellular networks

X Chen, J Wu, Y Cai, H Zhang… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper first provides a brief survey on existing traffic offloading techniques in wireless
networks. Particularly as a case study, we put forward an online reinforcement learning …

Reinforcement learning for context awareness and intelligence in wireless networks: Review, new features and open issues

KLA Yau, P Komisarczuk, PD Teal - Journal of Network and Computer …, 2012 - Elsevier
In wireless networks, context awareness and intelligence are capabilities that enable each
host to observe, learn, and respond to its complex and dynamic operating environment in an …

Femtocells: Past, present, and future

JG Andrews, H Claussen, M Dohler… - IEEE Journal on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Femtocells, despite their name, pose a potentially large disruption to the carefully planned
cellular networks that now connect a majority of the planet's citizens to the Internet and with …

Price-based resource allocation for spectrum-sharing femtocell networks: A stackelberg game approach

X Kang, R Zhang, M Motani - IEEE Journal on Selected areas …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates price-based resource allocation strategies for two-tier femtocell
networks, in which a central macrocell is underlaid with distributed femtocells, all operating …

A survey on applications of model-free strategy learning in cognitive wireless networks

W Wang, A Kwasinski, D Niyato… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The framework of cognitive wireless networks is expected to endow the wireless devices
with the cognition-intelligence ability with which they can efficiently learn and respond to the …

Switch-on/off policies for energy harvesting small cells through distributed Q-learning

M Miozzo, L Giupponi, M Rossi… - 2017 IEEE wireless …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The massive deployment of small cells (SCs) represents one of the most promising solutions
adopted by 5G cellular networks to meet the foreseen huge traffic demand. The high number …

Improving energy efficiency in green femtocell networks: A hierarchical reinforcement learning framework

X Chen, H Zhang, T Chen… - 2013 IEEE International …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates energy efficiency for the two-tier femtocell networks through
combining game theory and stochastic learning. With the Stackelberg game formulation, a …

Apprenticeship learning based spectrum decision in multi-channel wireless mesh networks with multi-beam antennas

Y Wu, F Hu, S Kumar, JD Matyjas… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel spectrum decision scheme (ie, channel selection and handoff) for
wireless mesh networks (WMN) which use multiple channels and nodes equipped with multi …

Superanalysis of optimum combining with application to femtocell networks

Y Jeong, H Shin, MZ Win - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A femtocell technology-towards the deployment of small-cell networks-is a key enabler for
improving indoor coverage and throughput per network area at a low cost in future wireless …

Transfer learning and cooperation management: balancing the quality of service and information exchange overhead in cognitive radio networks

Q Zhao, D Grace, T Clarke - Transactions on Emerging …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This paper introduces and studies a novel solution of transfer learning applied to spectrum
management in cognitive radio networks in order to improve the Quality of Service (QoS) …