Intelligent Link Adaptation for Grant-Free Access Cellular Networks: A Distributed Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

07/08/2021
by   Joao V. C. Evangelista, et al.
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With the continuous growth of machine-type devices (MTDs), it is expected that massive machine-type communication (mMTC) will be the dominant form of traffic in future wireless networks. Applications based on this technology, have fundamentally different traffic characteristics from human-to-human (H2H) communication, which involves a relatively small number of devices transmitting large packets consistently. Conversely, in mMTC applications, a very large number of MTDs transmit small packets sporadically. Therefore, conventional grant-based access schemes commonly adopted for H2H service, are not suitable for mMTC, as they incur in a large overhead associated with the channel request procedure. We propose three grant-free distributed optimization architectures that are able to significantly minimize the average power consumption of the network. The problem of physical layer (PHY) and medium access control (MAC) optimization in grant-free random access transmission is is modeled as a partially observable stochastic game (POSG) aimed at minimizing the average transmit power under a per-device delay constraint. The results show that the proposed architectures are able to achieve significantly less average latency than a baseline, while spending less power. Moreover, the proposed architectures are more robust than the baseline, as they present less variance in the performance for different system realizations.

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