of the Dissertation Decentralized Information Processing in Wireless Peer-to-Peer Networks

This paper develops a decentralized reinforcement learning (RL) scheme for multi-intersection adaptive traffic signal control (TSC), called “CVLight”, that leverages data collected from connected vehicles (CVs). The state and reward design facilitates coordination among agents considers travel delays by CVs. A novel algorithm, Asymmetric Advantage Actor-critic (Asym-A2C), is proposed where both...

The development of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) is the key to improving urban mobility safety efficiency. This article focuses on cooperative vehicle management at a signal-free intersection with consideration modeling uncertainties sensor measurement disturbances. problem approached by hierarchical robust control strategy in decentralized traffic coordination framework where optimal...

The choices for mining of decentralized data are numerous, and we have developed techniques to enumerate and optimize decentralized frequent itemset counting. In this paper, we introduce our heuristic approach to improve the performance of such techniques developed in ways similar to query processing in database systems. We also describe empirical results that validate our heuristic techniques.

Participatory Sensing is a new computing paradigm that aims to turn personal mobile devices into advanced mobile sensing networks. In this paper, we describe and evaluate two distributed strategies for processing participatory sensing data. These strategies are built on top of a decentralized architecture composed on user-contributed machines. The evaluation shows that these strategies spread t...

Participatory Sensing is an emerging application paradigm that leverages the growing ubiquity of sensor-capable smartphones to allow communities to carry out wide-area sensing tasks, as a side-effect of people’s everyday lives and movements. This paper proposes a decentralized infrastructure for supporting Participatory Sensing applications. It describes an architecture for modeling, prototypin...

Companion papers develop a model of real-time hierarchical computation of resource allocations by boundedly rational members of an administrative staa. The nodes of a hierarchy are ooces within which information processing may be decentralized. Decision making is decentralized across the nodes of the hierarchy. A version in which the cost functions are quadratic and the cost parameters follow r...