Pub Date : 2024-09-25DOI: 10.1109/OJVT.2024.3468164
Mohammed Mujib Alshahrani
The Social Internet of Vehicles (SIoV) connects cars that are nearby and uses different types of infrastructure to connect people with shared interests. A public, open tool, such as the cloud, is used to share information about things like tolls, traffic, weather, and more. When people share social information, the risks of data leaks and trustworthiness are still not dealt with. This article presents a Verifiable Discrete Trust Model (VDTM) that uses Congruent Federated Learning (CFL) to make social information-sharing tools more trustworthy. The proposed trust model ensures pre- and post-sharing trust verification of the communicating vehicles. Trust is verified as a global identity factor due to the inconsistency between sharing occasions. The CFL is accountable of checking forward and backward trust between the times before and after sharing. In this learning, the congruency is zero-variance detection on both occasions of information sharing. The learning does this check over and over to make sure there is discrete trust in information-sharing times between vehicles, between vehicles and infrastructure, or between vehicles and platforms. The identified trust is valid within the specific interval broadcasted during request initializations. Depending on the trust level, the sharing interval is authenticated using forward and reverse private keys. Therefore, the vehicle's trust results from the maximum information integrity observed in the pre-and post-sharing interval. For the maximum vehicles considered, the proposed model leverages the trust index by 8%, information sharing by 7.15%, and reducing key overhead by 9.35% and time consumption by 7.76%.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-24DOI: 10.1109/OJVT.2024.3466858
Sree Krishna Das;Ratna Mudi;Md. Siddikur Rahman;Khaled M. Rabie;Xingwang Li
The increasing popularity of Internet of Things (IoT)-based wireless services highlights the urgent need to upgrade fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks and beyond to accommodate these services. Although 5G networks currently support a variety of wireless services, they might not fully meet the high computational and communication resource demands of new applications. Issues such as latency, energy consumption, network congestion, signaling overhead, and potential privacy breaches contribute to this limitation. Machine learning (ML) frequently offers solutions to these problems. As a result, sixth-generation (6G) wireless technologies are being developed to address the deficiencies of 5G networks. Traditional ML methods are generally centralized. However, the vast amount of wireless data generated, growing privacy concerns, and the increasing computational capabilities of edge devices have led to a shift towards optimizing system performance in a distributed manner. This paper provides a thorough analysis of distributed learning techniques, including federated learning (FL), multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), and the multi-agent federated reinforcement learning (FRL) framework. It explains how these techniques can be effectively and efficiently implemented in wireless networks. These methods offer potential solutions to the challenges faced by current wireless networks, promising to create a more robust, capable, and versatile network that meets the growing demands of IoT and other emerging applications. Implementing the FRL framework can significantly improve the learning efficiency of wireless networks. To tackle the challenges posed by rapidly changing radio channels, we propose a robust FRL framework that enables local users to perform distributed power allocation, bandwidth allocation, interference mitigation, and communication mode selection. Finally, the paper outlines several future research directions aimed at effectively integrating the FRL framework into wireless networks.
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IEEE 802.15.4 smart utility network (SUN) frequency-shift keying (FSK) has attracted considerable attention as a wireless communication standard designed for use in essential applications required by Internet of Things (IoT) systems. However, longer transmission distances in highly mobile environments are required to support various applications in next-generation IoT systems, such as vehicle-to-everything, automated driving, and drone control systems. Although research on wide-area, highly mobile communications has been conducted via computer simulations, an experimental evaluation platform for further research has not been developed. In this study, we developed an experimental evaluation platform for SUN FSK in very high frequency bands. The developed platform comprises a signal generator-based transmitter and a software-defined radio-based receiver. It was proven to be capable of transmitting a power of ≥5 W through a power amplifier and was suitable for laboratory and field experiments. In addition, we developed received signal processing methods, including a packet detection method and a channel estimation method, which were designed to achieve wide-area, highly mobile communication. In laboratory experiments, the packet error rate characteristics required by IEEE 802.15.4 were achieved even at a transmission distance of >10 km at vehicular speeds of several tens of km/h.
IEEE 802.15.4 智能公用事业网络（SUN）频移键控（FSK）作为物联网（IoT）系统所需的基本应用而设计的无线通信标准引起了广泛关注。然而，要支持下一代物联网系统中的各种应用，如车对物、自动驾驶和无人机控制系统，就需要在高度移动的环境中实现更远的传输距离。虽然有关广域高移动通信的研究已通过计算机模拟进行，但用于进一步研究的实验评估平台尚未开发出来。在本研究中，我们开发了一个用于超高频段 SUN FSK 的实验评估平台。开发的平台包括一个基于信号发生器的发射器和一个基于软件定义无线电的接收器。实验证明，该平台能够通过功率放大器发射功率≥5 W 的信号，适用于实验室和现场实验。此外，我们还开发了接收信号处理方法，包括数据包检测方法和信道估计方法，旨在实现广域高移动通信。在实验室实验中，即使在传输距离大于 10 千米、车速为几十千米/小时的情况下，也能达到 IEEE 802.15.4 所要求的数据包错误率特性。
{"title":"Software-Defined Radio-Based IEEE 802.15.4 SUN FSK Evaluation Platform for Highly Mobile Environments","authors":"Jaeseok Lim;Keito Nakura;Shota Mori;Hiroshi Harada","doi":"10.1109/OJVT.2024.3464349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJVT.2024.3464349","url":null,"abstract":"IEEE 802.15.4 smart utility network (SUN) frequency-shift keying (FSK) has attracted considerable attention as a wireless communication standard designed for use in essential applications required by Internet of Things (IoT) systems. However, longer transmission distances in highly mobile environments are required to support various applications in next-generation IoT systems, such as vehicle-to-everything, automated driving, and drone control systems. Although research on wide-area, highly mobile communications has been conducted via computer simulations, an experimental evaluation platform for further research has not been developed. In this study, we developed an experimental evaluation platform for SUN FSK in very high frequency bands. The developed platform comprises a signal generator-based transmitter and a software-defined radio-based receiver. It was proven to be capable of transmitting a power of ≥5 W through a power amplifier and was suitable for laboratory and field experiments. In addition, we developed received signal processing methods, including a packet detection method and a channel estimation method, which were designed to achieve wide-area, highly mobile communication. In laboratory experiments, the packet error rate characteristics required by IEEE 802.15.4 were achieved even at a transmission distance of >10 km at vehicular speeds of several tens of km/h.","PeriodicalId":34270,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10684162","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142579187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-17DOI: 10.1109/OJVT.2024.3462599
Yuki Kuraya;Hideki Ochiai
We propose a new physical layer security scheme for a wiretap channel in polar-coded OFDM-based wireless communication systems. Our approach is based on the adaptive bit channel selection , where the input bit channels of polar code are selected according to the frequency selectivity of the main channel. Specifically, the polar code is constructed by the legitimate receiver based on its observed channel state information (CSI), and the receiver informs the transmitter of the resulting code structure. Since the proposed scheme attempts to improve the block error rate (BLER) performance exclusively for the main channel, it provides a significant performance gain over the wiretap channel, as long as the channel of the eavesdropper is not highly correlated with that of the legitimate receiver. On the assumption that the wiretap channel is uncorrelated with the main channel, simulation results demonstrate that the main channel can achieve significant performance gains over the wiretap channel, even under the worst-case scenario where the selected polar code structure (i.e., a set of the bit channels selected by the legitimate receiver for information transmission) is completely known to the eavesdropper. We also consider the case where the main channel and wiretap channel are correlated and reveal that our approach is effective even in the presence of mild channel correlation. Finally, the effect of the channel estimation error on the resulting BLER is also examined, pointing out the importance of accurate CSI acquisition at the receiver side.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-13DOI: 10.1109/OJVT.2024.3460979
Varvara V. Elesina;Carla E. Reinhardt;Lennart Thielecke;Tobias Doeker;Thomas Kürner
This paper present an initial approach to the analysis of the stationarity of time-variant channels in industrial environments, focusing on three distinct scenarios: 1) communication between a static access point (AP) and a sensor node (SN) mounted on a moving machine within a comprehensive industrial workspace, 2) communication between two static sensor node (SN) with a moving metal plate object between them, and 3) communication between two static robotic manipulators with a moving obstacle with varying movement speeds between them. The assumptions of the wide-sense stationary (WSS) and uncorrelated scatering (US), fundamental to channel modeling, are examined using local scattering function (LSF) collinearity metrics in both time and frequency domains. In blockage scenarios, where we compared the effects of two different types of obstacles – a metal plate and a robotic arm – the channel behavior can be divided into three distinct regions: fully stationary before and after the blockage, non-stationary during the transition periods, and either conditionally stationary or fully non-stationary during partial or full blockage, respectively. These distinctions were influenced by the type of blockage object and whether the scenario involved non-line-of-sight (NLOS) or obstructed-line-of-sight (OLOS) conditions. Notably, the speed of moving obstacles affects the duration and nature of non-stationary regions, with higher speeds leading to shorter and less distinct transition periods. The US assumption was found to be generally valid in the blockage scenarios but not in the AP scenario.
本文提出了一种分析工业环境中时变信道静止性的初步方法，重点关注三种不同的场景：1) 在一个综合工业工作区内，一个静态接入点（AP）和一个安装在移动机器上的传感器节点（SN）之间的通信；2) 两个静态传感器节点（SN）之间的通信，它们之间有一个移动的金属板物体；3) 两个静态机器人机械手之间的通信，它们之间有一个移动的障碍物，移动速度各不相同。利用时域和频域的局部散射函数（LSF）共线性指标，对信道建模的基本假设--广义静止（WSS）和非相关散射（US）进行了检验。在阻塞情况下，我们比较了金属板和机械臂这两种不同类型障碍物的影响，信道行为可分为三个不同的区域：阻塞前后完全静止、过渡期间非静止、部分或完全阻塞期间分别为有条件静止或完全非静止。这些区别受到障碍物类型以及情景是否涉及非视线（NLOS）或视线受阻（OLOS）条件的影响。值得注意的是，移动障碍物的速度会影响非稳态区域的持续时间和性质，速度越快，过渡时间越短，越不明显。研究发现，US 假设在阻塞情况下基本有效，但在 AP 情况下无效。
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Pub Date : 2024-09-10DOI: 10.1109/OJVT.2024.3457499
Mamunur Rashid;Tarek Elfouly;Nan Chen
The transition of the automotive sector to electric vehicles (EVs) necessitates research on charging demand forecasting for optimal station placement and capacity planning. In the literature, extensive studies have been conducted on model-based and probabilistic EV charging demand forecasting schemes. The studies provide a solid research foundation but result in complicated models with limited scalability. Meanwhile, emerging machine learning techniques bring promising prospects, yet exhibit suboptimal performance with insufficient data. Additionally, existing studies often overlook several critical areas such as overcoming data scarcity, security and privacy concerns, managing the inherent stochasticity of demand data, selecting forecasting methods for a specific feature, and developing standardized performance metrics. Considering the impact of the research topic, EV charging demand forecasting demands careful study. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of EV charging demand forecasting, focusing on both probabilistic and learning algorithms. First, we introduce the general procedure of EV charging demand forecasting, encompassing data sources, data pre-processing, and the key EV features. We then provide a taxonomy of existing EV charging demand forecasting techniques, followed by a critical analysis and comparative study of state-of-the-art research. Finally, we discuss open issues, which offer useful insights and future direction for various stakeholders.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-09DOI: 10.1109/OJVT.2024.3456035
Jose Matute;Sergio Diaz;Ali Karimoddini
Achieving robust path tracking is essential for efficiently operating autonomous driving systems, particularly in unpredictable environments. This paper introduces a novel path-tracking control methodology utilizing a variable second-order Sliding Mode Control (SMC) approach. The proposed control strategy addresses the challenges posed by uncertainties and disturbances by reconfiguring and expanding the state-space matrix of a kinematic bicycle model guaranteeing Lyapunov stability and convergence of the system. A state prediction is integrated into the developed SMC to mitigate response time delays. Furthermore, the controller integrates adaptive mechanisms to adjust time-varying parameters within the control formulation based on longitudinal velocity, thereby enhancing path-tracking performance and reducing chattering phenomena. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is comprehensively evaluated through simulations and experiments encompassing challenging driving scenarios characterized by high-curvature paths, varying altitudes, and sensor disturbances, typical in rural driving environments. Results demonstrate that disturbances have varying impacts depending on the type of sensor affected. Real-world tests validate these findings, offering practical insights for automated vehicle path-tracking implementation.
{"title":"Sliding Mode Control for Robust Path Tracking of Automated Vehicles in Rural Environments","authors":"Jose Matute;Sergio Diaz;Ali Karimoddini","doi":"10.1109/OJVT.2024.3456035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJVT.2024.3456035","url":null,"abstract":"Achieving robust path tracking is essential for efficiently operating autonomous driving systems, particularly in unpredictable environments. This paper introduces a novel path-tracking control methodology utilizing a variable second-order Sliding Mode Control (SMC) approach. The proposed control strategy addresses the challenges posed by uncertainties and disturbances by reconfiguring and expanding the state-space matrix of a kinematic bicycle model guaranteeing Lyapunov stability and convergence of the system. A state prediction is integrated into the developed SMC to mitigate response time delays. Furthermore, the controller integrates adaptive mechanisms to adjust time-varying parameters within the control formulation based on longitudinal velocity, thereby enhancing path-tracking performance and reducing chattering phenomena. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is comprehensively evaluated through simulations and experiments encompassing challenging driving scenarios characterized by high-curvature paths, varying altitudes, and sensor disturbances, typical in rural driving environments. Results demonstrate that disturbances have varying impacts depending on the type of sensor affected. Real-world tests validate these findings, offering practical insights for automated vehicle path-tracking implementation.","PeriodicalId":34270,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10669799","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142377112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A perturbation-based nulling control beamforming (PNCB) scheme is proposed to effectively mitigate multi-user interference (MUI) in multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MU-mMIMO) systems. This is achieved through the precise alignment of deep and wide radiation nulls in the potential interference directions, considering the realistic heterogeneous element radiation patterns (ERPs). Utilizing measured ERPs from an 8 × 8 antenna array prototype, this study conducts a thorough analysis of ERP variations across different positions in the array. The ERP symmetry knowledge is leveraged to enhance the optimization efficiency by reapplying optimized beamforming vectors to symmetric sub-arrays. The proposed PNCB scheme initiates optimization with weights derived from the linearly constrained minimum variance approach, followed by strategic weight perturbations implemented with particle swarm optimization. This process fine-tunes the sub-optimal beamforming vectors to address discrepancies caused by non-uniform ERPs. Illustrative results demonstrate interference suppression levels exceeding 52.4 dB in multi-user scenarios, without significantly affecting the main-lobe radiation patterns. The nulling width control algorithm achieves an average nulling level ranging from −45.3 dB to −57.7 dB across a 6-degree angle span. Further studies delve into the impact of attenuator and phase-shifter quantization on the nulling level, offering insights into performance variations with different hardware configurations. Experimental validation in an anechoic chamber, involving two users with distinct 20 MHz modulation signals, confirms the effectiveness of the proposed PNCB approach, ensuring reliable and efficient communication in MU-mMIMO systems. The results demonstrate an average enhancement of 22.0 dB in the signal-to-interference ratio, effectively reducing the MUI to near the noise floor. The efficacy of the proposed PNCB scheme is further evidenced by the high-quality received constellation diagrams, with enhanced error vector magnitude performance.
{"title":"Perturbation-Based Nulling Control Beamforming With Measured Element Radiation Patterns for MU-mMIMO","authors":"Yuanzhe Gong;Arish Yaseen;Tingrui Zhang;Robert Morawski;Tho Le-Ngoc","doi":"10.1109/OJVT.2024.3453951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJVT.2024.3453951","url":null,"abstract":"A perturbation-based nulling control beamforming (PNCB) scheme is proposed to effectively mitigate multi-user interference (MUI) in multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MU-mMIMO) systems. This is achieved through the precise alignment of deep and wide radiation nulls in the potential interference directions, considering the realistic heterogeneous element radiation patterns (ERPs). Utilizing measured ERPs from an 8 × 8 antenna array prototype, this study conducts a thorough analysis of ERP variations across different positions in the array. The ERP symmetry knowledge is leveraged to enhance the optimization efficiency by reapplying optimized beamforming vectors to symmetric sub-arrays. The proposed PNCB scheme initiates optimization with weights derived from the linearly constrained minimum variance approach, followed by strategic weight perturbations implemented with particle swarm optimization. This process fine-tunes the sub-optimal beamforming vectors to address discrepancies caused by non-uniform ERPs. Illustrative results demonstrate interference suppression levels exceeding 52.4 dB in multi-user scenarios, without significantly affecting the main-lobe radiation patterns. The nulling width control algorithm achieves an average nulling level ranging from −45.3 dB to −57.7 dB across a 6-degree angle span. Further studies delve into the impact of attenuator and phase-shifter quantization on the nulling level, offering insights into performance variations with different hardware configurations. Experimental validation in an anechoic chamber, involving two users with distinct 20 MHz modulation signals, confirms the effectiveness of the proposed PNCB approach, ensuring reliable and efficient communication in MU-mMIMO systems. The results demonstrate an average enhancement of 22.0 dB in the signal-to-interference ratio, effectively reducing the MUI to near the noise floor. The efficacy of the proposed PNCB scheme is further evidenced by the high-quality received constellation diagrams, with enhanced error vector magnitude performance.","PeriodicalId":34270,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10663863","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142274920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Terahertz (THz) communication is a cutting-edge technology for the sixth-generation (6G) networks, offering vast bandwidths and data rates up to terabits per second, significantly advancing vehicular connectivity and services. However, THz signals are impacted by attenuation, path loss, and beam misalignment. Furthermore, the requisite high Nyquist sampling rates for THz systems increase the computational and system complexity of the receiver. A promising solution to navigate these obstacles involves the use of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS)-enhanced multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology, which steers THz wave propagation. However, the substantial dimensions associated with IRS and MIMO extend the near-field, particularly at THz frequencies, as indicated by the Rayleigh distance and suffer from beam squint. To reduce system complexity and reduce sampling to sub-Nyquist rate, we propose a novel receiver design for an IRS-assisted near-field MIMO THz system that employs low-complexity compressed sensing. This method introduces an IRS signal-matched (IRSSM) measurement matrix with beam squint for capturing the transmitted signal at a sub-Nyquist rate, taking advantage of the sparsity in the signal and THz channels, and signal recovery using the deep learning (DL) model. Simulation results for symbol error rate (SER) and normalized mean square error (NMSE) performance indicate that the proposed DL-based receiver outperforms conventional recovery algorithms based on orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) CS-recovery and dictionary-shrinkage estimation (DSE).
{"title":"Deep Learning Model for CS-Based Signal Recovery for IRS-Assisted Near-Field THz MIMO System","authors":"Vaishali Sharma;Prakhar Keshari;Sanjeev Sharma;Kuntal Deka;Ondrej Krejcar;Vimal Bhatia","doi":"10.1109/OJVT.2024.3452412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJVT.2024.3452412","url":null,"abstract":"Terahertz (THz) communication is a cutting-edge technology for the sixth-generation (6G) networks, offering vast bandwidths and data rates up to terabits per second, significantly advancing vehicular connectivity and services. However, THz signals are impacted by attenuation, path loss, and beam misalignment. Furthermore, the requisite high Nyquist sampling rates for THz systems increase the computational and system complexity of the receiver. A promising solution to navigate these obstacles involves the use of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS)-enhanced multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology, which steers THz wave propagation. However, the substantial dimensions associated with IRS and MIMO extend the near-field, particularly at THz frequencies, as indicated by the Rayleigh distance and suffer from beam squint. To reduce system complexity and reduce sampling to sub-Nyquist rate, we propose a novel receiver design for an IRS-assisted near-field MIMO THz system that employs low-complexity compressed sensing. This method introduces an IRS signal-matched (IRSSM) measurement matrix with beam squint for capturing the transmitted signal at a sub-Nyquist rate, taking advantage of the sparsity in the signal and THz channels, and signal recovery using the deep learning (DL) model. Simulation results for symbol error rate (SER) and normalized mean square error (NMSE) performance indicate that the proposed DL-based receiver outperforms conventional recovery algorithms based on orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) CS-recovery and dictionary-shrinkage estimation (DSE).","PeriodicalId":34270,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10660298","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142376540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming increasingly popular as mobile base stations due to their flexible deployment and low-cost features, particularly for emergency communications, traffic offloading, and terrestrial communications infrastructure failures. This paper presents an autonomous trajectory control method for multiple UAVs equipped with base stations for UAV-enabled wireless communications. The objective of this work is to address the optimization challenge of maximizing both communication coverage and network throughput for ground users. The proposed multi-aerial base station trajectory control (MATC) scheme employs a two-stage learning approach. Initially, we developed a long short-term memory-based link quality estimation model to assess each user's link quality over time. The trajectory of the aerial base stations is then continuously adjusted through a centralized multi-agent deep reinforcement learning algorithm to optimize communication performance. We evaluated our proposed system using real channel measurement data, i.e., amplitude and phase signal information. Notably, the proposed approach operates solely on received signals from users, without requiring knowledge of their specific locations. The proposed MATC strategy achieves 97.41% communication coverage while maintaining satisfactory system throughput performance. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed method significantly enhances both communication coverage and network throughput in comparison to the base line algorithms.
{"title":"A Centralized Multi-Agent DRL-Based Trajectory Control Strategy for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Enabled Wireless Communications","authors":"Getaneh Berie Tarekegn;Rong-Terng Juang;Belayneh Abebe Tesfaw;Hsin-Piao Lin;Huan-Chia Hsu;Robel Berie Tarekegn;Li-Chia Tai","doi":"10.1109/OJVT.2024.3451143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJVT.2024.3451143","url":null,"abstract":"Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming increasingly popular as mobile base stations due to their flexible deployment and low-cost features, particularly for emergency communications, traffic offloading, and terrestrial communications infrastructure failures. This paper presents an autonomous trajectory control method for multiple UAVs equipped with base stations for UAV-enabled wireless communications. The objective of this work is to address the optimization challenge of maximizing both communication coverage and network throughput for ground users. The proposed multi-aerial base station trajectory control (MATC) scheme employs a two-stage learning approach. Initially, we developed a long short-term memory-based link quality estimation model to assess each user's link quality over time. The trajectory of the aerial base stations is then continuously adjusted through a centralized multi-agent deep reinforcement learning algorithm to optimize communication performance. We evaluated our proposed system using real channel measurement data, i.e., amplitude and phase signal information. Notably, the proposed approach operates solely on received signals from users, without requiring knowledge of their specific locations. The proposed MATC strategy achieves 97.41% communication coverage while maintaining satisfactory system throughput performance. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed method significantly enhances both communication coverage and network throughput in comparison to the base line algorithms.","PeriodicalId":34270,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10654501","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142235822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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