Grant-free random access (RA) techniques are suitable for machine-type communication (MTC) networks but they need to be adaptive to the MTC traffic, which is different from the human-type communication. Conventional RA protocols such as exponential backoff (EB) schemes for slotted-ALOHA suffer from a high number of collisions and they are not directly applicable to the MTC traffic models. In this work, we propose to use multi-agent deep Q-network (DQN) with parameter sharing to find a single policy applied to all machine-type devices (MTDs) in the network to resolve collisions. Moreover, we consider binary broadcast feedback common to all devices to reduce signalling overhead. We compare the performance of our proposed DQN-RA scheme with EB schemes for up to 500 MTDs and show that the proposed scheme outperforms EB policies and provides a better balance between throughput, delay and collision rate.


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    Title :

    Collision Resolution with Deep Reinforcement Learning for Random Access in Machine-Type Communication


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    Publication date :

    2022-06-01


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    1564941 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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