UAV-based air-ground integrated networks offer a significant benefit in terms of providing ubiquitous communications and computing services for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. With the empowerment of edge intelligence (EI) technology, they can efficiently deploy various intelligent IoT applications. However, the trajectory of UAVs can significantly affect the quality of service (QoS) and resource optimization decisions. Joint computation offloading and UAV trajectory optimization bring many challenges, including coupled decision variables, information uncertainty, and long-term queue delay constraints. Therefore, this paper introduces an air-ground integrated architecture with EI and proposes a TD3-based joint computation offloading and UAV trajectory optimization (TCOTO) algorithm. Specifically, we use the principle of the TD3 algorithm to transform the original problem into a cumulative reward maximization problem in deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to obtain the UAV trajectory and offloading strategy. Additionally, the Lyapunov framework is used to convert the original long-term optimization problem into a deterministic short-term time-slot problem to ensure the long-term stability of the UAV queue. Based on the simulation results, it can be concluded that our novel TD3-based algorithm effectively solves the joint computation offloading and UAV trajectory optimization problems. The proposed algorithm improves the performance of the system energy efficiency by 3.77%, 22.90%, and 67.62%, respectively, compared to the other three benchmark schemes.


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    Title :

    Edge-Intelligence-Powered Joint Computation Offloading and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Trajectory Optimization Strategy


    Contributors:
    Qian Liu (author) / Zhi Qi (author) / Sihong Wang (author) / Qilie Liu (author)


    Publication date :

    2024




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

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