Lin Zhicong, Wang Yonghua, Wan Pin. Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Spectrum Allocation in Vehicular Networks[J]. 2025, 42(3): 101-110.DOI: 10.12052/gdutxb.240111.
Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Spectrum Allocation in Vehicular Networks
A dynamic spectrum allocation scheme is proposed to address the growing number of vehicles and limited spectrum resources in vehicular networks. It integrates the self-attention mechanism and monotonic value function factorisation into deep multi-agent reinforcement learning to optimize channel selection and power levels for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) links. The global objective is to maximize the sum throughput of vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) links
while meeting the latency and reliability constraints of V2V links. To handle incomplete real-time channel state information due to dynamic environment
a deep recurrent Q-network is deployed for each V2V link
enabling autonomous decision-making based on local observations. To align the local strategy optimization of each V2V link with the global objective
a global mixing network with monotonicity constraints is designed to guide the algorithm training. Additionally
an information interaction model based on the self-attention mechanism further optimizes collaboration between V2V links. Compared with the baselines
the proposed algorithm increases the sum throughput of V2I links by 1.44~8.24 percentage point and reduces the transmission delay of V2V links by 1.93~15.04 percentage point . These results confirm its effectiveness in optimizing channel selection and power levels for improved communication quality.
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