Fatemeh Golpayegani

Abdul Wadud, Fatemeh Golpayegani, Nima Afraz

Handover optimization in O-RAN faces growing challenges due to heterogeneous user mobility patterns and rapidly varying radio conditions. Existing ML-based handover schemes typically operate at the near-RT layer, which lack awareness of the mobility-mode and struggle to incorporate a longer-term predictive context. This paper proposes a multi-modal mobility-aware optimization framework in which all predictive intelligence, including mobility mode classification, short-horizon trajectory and RSRP forecasting, and a PPO Actor--Critic policy, runs entirely inside an rApp in the non-RT RIC. The rApp generates per-UE ranked neighbour-cell recommendations and delivers them to the existing handover xApp through the A1 interface. The xApp combines these rankings with instantaneous E2 measurements and performs the final standards-compliant handover decision. This hierarchical design preserves low-latency execution in the xApp while enabling the rApp to supply richer and mode-specific predictive guidance. Evaluation using mobility traces demonstrates that the proposed approach reduces ping-pong handover events and improves handover reliability compared to conventional 3GPP A3-based and ML-based baselines.

Zahra Safavifar, Charafeddine Mechalikh, Fatemeh Golpayegani

Pure Edge computing (PEC) aims to bring cloud applications and services to the edge of the network to support the growing user demand for time-sensitive applications and data-driven computing. However, mobility and limited computational capacity of edge devices pose challenges in supporting some urgent and computationally intensive tasks with strict response time demands. If the execution results of these tasks exceed the deadline, they become worthless and can cause severe safety issues. Therefore, it is essential to ensure that edge nodes complete as many latency-sensitive tasks as possible. \\In this paper, we propose a Robust Adaptive Workload Orchestration (R-AdWOrch) model to minimize deadline misses and data loss by using priority definition and a reallocation strategy. The results show that R-AdWOrch can minimize deadline misses of urgent tasks while minimizing the data loss of lower priority tasks under all conditions.

Maha Riad, Vinicius Renan de Carvalho, Fatemeh Golpayegani

Value-alignment in normative multi-agent systems is used to promote a certain value and to ensure the consistent behavior of agents in autonomous intelligent systems with human values. However, the current literature is limited to incorporation of effective norms for single value alignment with no consideration of agents' heterogeneity and the requirement of simultaneous promotion and alignment of multiple values. This research proposes a multi-value promotion model that uses multi-objective evolutionary algorithms to produce the optimum parametric set of norms that is aligned with multiple simultaneous values of heterogeneous agents and the system. To understand various aspects of this complex problem, several evolutionary algorithms were used to find a set of optimised norm parameters considering two toy tax scenarios with two and five values are considered. The results are analysed from different perspectives to show the impact of a selected evolutionary algorithm on the solution, and the importance of understanding the relation between values when prioritising them.