With traffic congestion problems becoming more severe in urban areas, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration promotes the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) concept, which envisages a safe and efficient air transportation system. However, the increased communication demands in UAM can exacerbate the spectrum scarcity. Therefore, a new communication resource allocation solution is necessary. In this paper, we focus on uplink UAM communications, where multiple aerial vehicles (AV) perform cargo/passenger delivery tasks. With predefined flight paths, AVs make decisions on communication resource allocation and velocity selection to complete their missions under safety constraints. Accordingly, we formulate a joint optimization problem to minimize the weighted sum of the total travel time and communication outage time. We first model the optimization problem as a Markov game and propose a multi-agent reinforcement learning based solution. Simulation results corroborate the effectiveness of the proposed solution.


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    Title :

    Joint Communication Resource Allocation and Velocity Selection in Urban Air Mobility via Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning


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    Conference:

    IEEE Global Communications (GlobeCom) Conference ; 2023 ; Kuala Lumpur, MY


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


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    Language :

    English