11.5LGSep 12, 2023
Emergent Communication in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Future Wireless NetworksMarwa Chafii, Salmane Naoumi, Reda Alami et al.
In different wireless network scenarios, multiple network entities need to cooperate in order to achieve a common task with minimum delay and energy consumption. Future wireless networks mandate exchanging high dimensional data in dynamic and uncertain environments, therefore implementing communication control tasks becomes challenging and highly complex. Multi-agent reinforcement learning with emergent communication (EC-MARL) is a promising solution to address high dimensional continuous control problems with partially observable states in a cooperative fashion where agents build an emergent communication protocol to solve complex tasks. This paper articulates the importance of EC-MARL within the context of future 6G wireless networks, which imbues autonomous decision-making capabilities into network entities to solve complex tasks such as autonomous driving, robot navigation, flying base stations network planning, and smart city applications. An overview of EC-MARL algorithms and their design criteria are provided while presenting use cases and research opportunities on this emerging topic.
7.2SPMar 20
Structured Latent Dynamics in Wireless CSI via Homomorphic World ModelsSalmane Naoumi, Mehdi Bennis, Marwa Chafii
We introduce a self-supervised framework for learning predictive and structured representations of wireless channels by modeling the temporal evolution of channel state information (CSI) in a compact latent space. Our method casts the problem as a world modeling task and leverages the Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) to learn action-conditioned latent dynamics from CSI trajectories. To promote geometric consistency and compositionality, we parameterize transitions using homomorphic updates derived from Lie algebra, yielding a structured latent space that reflects spatial layout and user motion. Evaluations on the DICHASUS dataset show that our approach outperforms strong baselines in preserving topology and forecasting future embeddings across unseen environments. The resulting latent space enables metrically faithful channel charts, offering a scalable foundation for downstream applications such as mobility-aware scheduling, localization, and wireless scene understanding.