Recently, with the development of autonomous driving technology, vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication technology that provides a wireless connection between vehicles, pedestrians, and roadside base stations has gained significant attention. Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication should provide low-latency and highly reliable services through direct communication between vehicles, improving safety. In particular, as the number of vehicles increases, efficient radio resource management becomes more important. In this paper, we propose a deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based decentralized resource allocation scheme in the V2X communication network in which the radio resources are shared between the V2V and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) networks. Here, a deep Q-network (DQN) is utilized to find the resource blocks and transmit power of vehicles in the V2V network to maximize the sum rate of the V2I and V2V links while reducing the power consumption and latency of V2V links. The DQN also uses the channel state information, the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) of V2I and V2V links, and the latency constraints of vehicles to find the optimal resource allocation scheme. The proposed DQN-based resource allocation scheme ensures energy-efficient transmissions that satisfy the latency constraints for V2V links while reducing the interference of the V2V network to the V2I network. We evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme in terms of the sum rate of the V2X network, the average power consumption of V2V links, and the average outage probability of V2V links using a case study in Manhattan with nine blocks of 3GPP TR 36.885. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme greatly reduces the transmit power of V2V links when compared to the conventional reinforcement learning-based resource allocation scheme without sacrificing the sum rate of the V2X network or the outage probability of V2V links.
1 March 2025 in Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
In this paper, we propose a deep Q-network-based resource allocation method for efficient communication between a base station and multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in environments with limited wireless resources. This method focused on maximizing the throughput of UAV to Infrastructure (U2I) links while ensuring that UAV to UAV (U2U) links could meet their data transmission time constraints, even when U2U links share the wireless resource used by U2I links. The deep Q-network agent uses the Channel State Information (CSI) of both U2U and U2I links, along with the remaining time for data transmission, as state, and determines optimal Resource Block (RB) and transmission power for each UAV. Simulation results demonstrated that the proposed method significantly outperformed both random allocation and CSI-based greedy algorithms in terms of U2I link throughput and the probability of meeting U2U link time constraints.