Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serving as aerial base stations can be deployed to provide wireless connectivity to mobile users, such as vehicles. However, the density of vehicles on roads often varies spatially and temporally primarily due to mobility and traffic situations in a geographical area, making it difficult to provide ubiquitous service. Moreover, as energy-constrained UAVs hover in the sky while serving mobile users, they may be faced with interference from nearby UAV cells or other access points sharing the same frequency band, thereby impacting the system’s energy efficiency (EE). Recent multiagent reinforcement learning (MARL) approaches applied to optimise the users’ coverage worked well in reasonably even densities but might not perform as well in uneven users’ distribution, i.e., in urban road networks with uneven concentration of vehicles. In this work, we propose a density-aware communication-enabled multi-agent decentralised double deep Q-network (DACEMAD–DDQN) approach that maximises the total system’s EE by jointly optimising the trajectory of each UAV, the number of connected users, and the UAVs’ energy consumption while keeping track of dense and uneven users’ distribution. Our result outperforms state-of-the-art MARL approaches in terms of EE by as much as 65% – 85%.


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    Title :

    Density-Aware Reinforcement Learning to Optimise Energy Efficiency in UAV-Assisted Networks


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    Publication date :

    2023-06-21


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    Conference paper


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    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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