UAV-Enabled Semantic Communication in Mobile Edge Computing Under Jamming Attacks: An Intelligent Resource Management Approach

Abstract

The integration of semantic communication with mobile edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a prominent research area. In this paper, we explore a novel scenario where semantic communication is integrated with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to enhance MEC, particularly in the face of jamming attacks. Our research focuses on addressing the resource management challenge to minimize task completion time and maximize semantic spectral efficiency (SSE) while adhering to quality of service requirements and resource constraints. Given the non-convexity of this problem and the dynamic behavior of jamming attacks, this paper proposes a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm by jointly optimizing UAV trajectories, user associations, and channel selections against jamming. In detail, the proposed anti-jamming DRL-based resource management approach can effectively capture the jammer’s behavior, and learn to adjust semantic task and resource scheduling strategies with the objective to minimize the negative effect of jamming attacks on task offloading and semantic communication. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms baseline algorithms in terms of task completion time and total SSE under different real-world settings.