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Multi-Agent DRL-Based Two-Timescale Resource Allocation for Network Slicing in V2X Communications
Lu, Binbin1; Wu, Yuan1,2; Qian, Liping3; Zhou, Sheng4; Zhang, Haixia5; Lu, Rongxing6
2024-09
Source PublicationIEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
ISSN1932-4537
Volume21Issue:6Pages:6744-6758
Abstract

Network slicing has been envisioned to play a crucial role in supporting various vehicular applications with diverse performance requirements in dynamic Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communications systems. However, time-varying Service Level Agreements (SLAs) of slices and fast-changing network topologies in V2X scenarios may introduce new challenges for enabling efficient inter-slice resource provisioning to guarantee the Quality of Service (QoS) while avoiding both resource over-provisioning and under-provisioning. Moreover, the conventional centralized resource allocation schemes requiring global slice information may degrade the data privacy provided by dedicated resource provisioning. To address these challenges, in this paper, we propose a two-timescale resource management mechanism for providing diverse V2X slices with customized resources. In the long timescale, we propose a Proximal Policy Optimization-based multi-agent deep reinforcement learning algorithm for dynamically allocating bandwidth resources to different slices for guaranteeing their SLAs. Under the coordination of agents, each agent only observes its partial state space rather than the global information to adjust the resource requests, which can enhance the privacy protection. Moreover, an expert demonstration mechanism is proposed to guide the action policy for reducing the invalid action exploration and accelerating the convergence of agents. In the short-term time slot, with our proposed Cross Entropy and Successive Convex Approximation algorithm, each slice allocates its available physical resource blocks and optimizes its transmit power to meet the QoS. Simulation results show our proposed two-timescale resource allocation scheme for network slicing can achieve maximum 8.4% performance gains in terms of spectral efficiency while guaranteeing the QoS requirements of users compared to the baseline approaches.

KeywordMulti-agent Deep Reinforcement Learning Network Slicing Resource Allocations V2x Communications
DOI10.1109/TNSM.2024.3454758
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Indexed BySCIE
Language英語English
WOS Research AreaComputer Science
WOS SubjectComputer Science, Information Systems
WOS IDWOS:001381755600016
PublisherIEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 445 HOES LANE, PISCATAWAY, NJ 08855-4141
Scopus ID2-s2.0-85212948625
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THE STATE KEY LABORATORY OF INTERNET OF THINGS FOR SMART CITY (UNIVERSITY OF MACAU)
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Corresponding AuthorWu, Yuan
Affiliation1.University of Macau, State Key Lab of Internet of Things for Smart City, Department of Computer and Information Science, Macau, Macao
2.University of Ma cau, Zhuhai-UM Science & Technology Research Institute, Zhuhai, 519072, China
3.Zhejiang University of Technology, College of Information Engineering, Hangzhou, 310023, China
4.Tsinghua University, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Department of Electronic Engineering, Beijing, 100084, China
5.Shandong University, Shandong Key Laboratory of Wireless Communication Technologies, School of Control Science and Engineering, Jinan, 250061, China
6.University of New Brunswick, Faculty of Computer Science, Fredericton, E3B 5A3, Canada
First Author AffilicationUniversity of Macau
Corresponding Author AffilicationUniversity of Macau
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Lu, Binbin,Wu, Yuan,Qian, Liping,et al. Multi-Agent DRL-Based Two-Timescale Resource Allocation for Network Slicing in V2X Communications[J]. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2024, 21(6), 6744-6758.
APA Lu, Binbin., Wu, Yuan., Qian, Liping., Zhou, Sheng., Zhang, Haixia., & Lu, Rongxing (2024). Multi-Agent DRL-Based Two-Timescale Resource Allocation for Network Slicing in V2X Communications. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 21(6), 6744-6758.
MLA Lu, Binbin,et al."Multi-Agent DRL-Based Two-Timescale Resource Allocation for Network Slicing in V2X Communications".IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management 21.6(2024):6744-6758.
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