Journal on Communications ›› 2023, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (2): 185-197.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2023025

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Research on multi-UAV energy consumption optimization algorithm for cellular-connected network

Jingming XIA1,2, Yufeng LIU3, Ling TAN4   

  1. 1 School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
    2 Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology (CICAEET), Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
    3 School of Software, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
    4 School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
  • Revised:2023-01-03 Online:2023-02-25 Published:2023-02-01
  • Supported by:
    The National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021ZD0102100);Jiangsu Province Industry University Research Fund(BY2022459)

Abstract:

In complex time-varying environment, the ground base station (GBS) may not assist the UAV.Therefore, a mobile edge computing (MEC) cellular-connected network based on digital twin (DT) technology was studied.Given the efficiency of multi-UAV, multiple high-altitude balloon (HAB) equipped with MEC servers were introduced.On this basis, an energy minimization problem for all UAV was proposed, and a multi-UAV trajectory optimization and resource allocation scheme was presented to solve it.The double deep Q-network (DDQN) was applied to handle the association between multi-UAV and multi-HAB, and the multi-UAV trajectory and computing resource allocation were jointly optimized by the successive convex approximation (SCA) and the block coordinate descent (BCD).Simulation experiments verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.The system energy consumption is reduced by 30%, better than the comparison algorithms.

Key words: UAV, task unloading, digital twins, DDQN, SCA

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