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INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Two-Tier Load Balancing in OSPF Wireless Back-Hauls
Abstract— High-speed wireless communication technology (e.g. WiMAX) makes it feasible and cost-effective to build wireless back-hauls for Internet access. Compared to wired count...
Xiaowen Zhang, Hao Zhu
TMC
2012
11 years 10 months ago
Message Drop and Scheduling in DTNs: Theory and Practice
Abstract—In order to achieve data delivery in Delay Tolerant Networks (DTN), researchers have proposed the use of store-carryand-forward protocols: a node there may store a messa...
Amir Krifa, Chadi Barakat, Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulo...
AAMAS
2007
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Parallel Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Approximation
In this paper, we investigate the use of parallelization in reinforcement learning (RL), with the goal of learning optimal policies for single-agent RL problems more quickly by us...
Matthew Grounds, Daniel Kudenko
WSC
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Feasibility study of variance reduction in the logistics composite model
The Logistics Composite Model (LCOM) is a stochastic, discrete-event simulation that relies on probabilities and random number generators to model scenarios in a maintenance unit ...
George P. Cole III, Alan W. Johnson, J. O. Miller
NIPS
2001
13 years 9 months ago
Variance Reduction Techniques for Gradient Estimates in Reinforcement Learning
Policy gradient methods for reinforcement learning avoid some of the undesirable properties of the value function approaches, such as policy degradation (Baxter and Bartlett, 2001...
Evan Greensmith, Peter L. Bartlett, Jonathan Baxte...