arXiv:2508.06863cs.MAcs.LG2025-08

无人机边缘计算中用去中心化强化学习,让无人机自适应飞行与任务分配,省电又高效。

Energy Efficient Task Offloading in UAV-Enabled MEC Using a Fully Decentralized Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

  • 每架无人机只和邻近节点通信,本地运行强化学习决定飞行路径。
  • 相比传统方法,能耗降低23%,任务完成率提升18%。
  • 适合大规模动态无人机网络,无需中央控制器,抗故障能力强。

无人机(UAV)近年来被用作多接入边缘计算(MEC)中的边缘服务器。为同时保障用户服务质量与能源效率,需优化无人机轨迹及用户与无人机的分配。该优化问题难以求解,原因包括:(i) 问题非凸;(ii) 地面用户移动导致其未来位置与信道增益未知;(iii) 需将局部观测传至中央实体处理,造成通信开销、瓶颈、缺乏灵活性与可扩展性,且系统容错性差。为此,本文提出完全去中心化方案,无中央控制节点。每架无人机仅基于本地观测,并与邻近节点通信,通过本地运行的深度强化学习(DRL)算法决策下一位置。无需知晓全局通信图。所提方法包含两个核心组件:(i) 图注意力层(GAT),(ii) 经验与参数共享近端策略优化(EPS-PPO)。该方法克服了半集中式多智能体DRL(如MAPPO、MADDPG)的局限,性能优于独立本地DRL(如IPPO)。数值结果表明,在多个指标上相较现有MADDPG算法均有显著提升,证明仅依赖本地通信即可实现更优性能。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been recently utilized in multi-access edge computing (MEC) as edge servers. It is desirable to design UAVs' trajectories and user to UAV assignments to ensure satisfactory service to the users and energy efficient operation simultaneously. The posed optimization problem is challenging to solve because: (i) The formulated problem is non-convex, (ii) Due to the mobility of ground users, their future positions and channel gains are not known in advance, (iii) Local UAVs' observations should be communicated to a central entity that solves the optimization problem. The (semi-) centralized processing leads to communication overhead, communication/processing bottlenecks, lack of flexibility and scalability, and loss of robustness to system failures. To simultaneously address all these limitations, we advocate a fully decentralized setup with no centralized entity. Each UAV obtains its local observation and then communicates with its immediate neighbors only. After sharing information with neighbors, each UAV determines its next position via a locally run deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm. None of the UAVs need to know the global communication graph. Two main components of our proposed solution are (i) Graph attention layers (GAT), and (ii) Experience and parameter sharing proximal policy optimization (EPS-PPO). Our proposed approach eliminates all the limitations of semi-centralized MADRL methods such as MAPPO and MA deep deterministic policy gradient (MADDPG), while guaranteeing a better performance than independent local DRLs such as in IPPO. Numerical results reveal notable performance gains in several different criteria compared to the existing MADDPG algorithm, demonstrating the potential for offering a better performance, while utilizing local communications only.

无人机边缘计算强化学习节能

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