New publication @ TNSM: Harnessing UAVs for Fair 5G Bandwidth Allocation in Vehicular Communication via Deep Reinforcement Learning

Tingting Yuan, Christian Rothenberg, Katia Obraczka, Chadi Barakat, and Thierry Turletti. “Harnessing UAVs for Fair 5G Bandwidth Allocation in Vehicular Communication via Deep Reinforcement Learning“. In  IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM). 2021.

Abstract:

Terrestrial infrastructure-based wireless networks do not always guarantee their resources will be shared uniformly by nodes in vehicular networks. This is due mainly to the uneven and dynamic geographical distribution of vehicles and path loss effects. In this paper, we leverage multiple fifth-generation (5G) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to enhance fairness in network resource allocation among vehicles by positioning UAVs on-demand as “flying communication infrastructure”. We propose a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) approach to determine UAVs’ position to improve network resource allocation fairness and efficiency while considering the UAVs’ flying range, communication range, and energy constraints. We use a parametric fairness function to attain a number of resource allocation objectives ranging from maximizing the total throughput of vehicles, maximizing minimum throughput, and achieving proportional bandwidth allocation. Simulation results show that the proposed DRL approach to UAV positioning can improve network resource allocation according to the targeted fairness objective.
Date of Publication: 25 October 2021
@ARTICLE{9585312,
  author={Yuan, Tingting and Rothenberg, Christian Esteve and Obraczka, Katia and Barakat, Chadi and Turletti, Thierry},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management}, 
  title={Harnessing UAVs for Fair 5G Bandwidth Allocation in Vehicular Communication via Deep Reinforcement Learning}, 
  year={2021},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={1-1},
  doi={10.1109/TNSM.2021.3122505}}

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