Lyapunov-guided Deep Reinforcement Learning for Semantic-aware AoI Minimization in UAV-assisted Wireless Networks

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Autores principales: Long, Yusi, Gong, Shimin, Sun, Sumei, Lee, Gary, Li, Lanhua, Niyato, Dusit
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author Long, Yusi
Gong, Shimin
Sun, Sumei
Lee, Gary
Li, Lanhua
Niyato, Dusit
author_facet Long, Yusi
Gong, Shimin
Sun, Sumei
Lee, Gary
Li, Lanhua
Niyato, Dusit
contents This paper investigates an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted semantic network where the ground users (GUs) periodically capture and upload the sensing information to a base station (BS) via UAVs' relaying. Both the GUs and the UAVs can extract semantic information from large-size raw data and transmit it to the BS for recovery. Smaller-size semantic information reduces latency and improves information freshness, while larger-size semantic information enables more accurate data reconstruction at the BS, preserving the value of original information. We introduce a novel semantic-aware age-of-information (SAoI) metric to capture both information freshness and semantic importance, and then formulate a time-averaged SAoI minimization problem by jointly optimizing the UAV-GU association, the semantic extraction, and the UAVs' trajectories. We decouple the original problem into a series of subproblems via the Lyapunov framework and then use hierarchical deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to solve each subproblem. Specifically, the UAV-GU association is determined by DRL, followed by the optimization module updating the semantic extraction strategy and UAVs' deployment. Simulation results show that the hierarchical structure improves learning efficiency. Moreover, it achieves low AoI through semantic extraction while ensuring minimal loss of original information, outperforming the existing baselines.
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spellingShingle Lyapunov-guided Deep Reinforcement Learning for Semantic-aware AoI Minimization in UAV-assisted Wireless Networks
Long, Yusi
Gong, Shimin
Sun, Sumei
Lee, Gary
Li, Lanhua
Niyato, Dusit
Information Theory
This paper investigates an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted semantic network where the ground users (GUs) periodically capture and upload the sensing information to a base station (BS) via UAVs' relaying. Both the GUs and the UAVs can extract semantic information from large-size raw data and transmit it to the BS for recovery. Smaller-size semantic information reduces latency and improves information freshness, while larger-size semantic information enables more accurate data reconstruction at the BS, preserving the value of original information. We introduce a novel semantic-aware age-of-information (SAoI) metric to capture both information freshness and semantic importance, and then formulate a time-averaged SAoI minimization problem by jointly optimizing the UAV-GU association, the semantic extraction, and the UAVs' trajectories. We decouple the original problem into a series of subproblems via the Lyapunov framework and then use hierarchical deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to solve each subproblem. Specifically, the UAV-GU association is determined by DRL, followed by the optimization module updating the semantic extraction strategy and UAVs' deployment. Simulation results show that the hierarchical structure improves learning efficiency. Moreover, it achieves low AoI through semantic extraction while ensuring minimal loss of original information, outperforming the existing baselines.
title Lyapunov-guided Deep Reinforcement Learning for Semantic-aware AoI Minimization in UAV-assisted Wireless Networks
topic Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13580