Hybrid Bit and Semantic Communications for UAV-Enabled Wireless Power Transfer Networks: A Decision-Assisted Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

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Main Authors: Li, Jingfu, Cui, Jingjing, Huang, Chong, Zhu, Jing, Chu, Zheng, Chen, Mingzhe, Xiao, Pei, Tafazolli, Rahim
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author Li, Jingfu
Cui, Jingjing
Huang, Chong
Zhu, Jing
Chu, Zheng
Chen, Mingzhe
Xiao, Pei
Tafazolli, Rahim
author_facet Li, Jingfu
Cui, Jingjing
Huang, Chong
Zhu, Jing
Chu, Zheng
Chen, Mingzhe
Xiao, Pei
Tafazolli, Rahim
contents Semantic communications which can significantly reduce spectrum consumption in wireless networks, have recently become a popular research area. When combined with wireless power transfer (WPT), semantic communications can help achieve high spectral efficiency for energy-limited devices in wireless communications. In energy-constrained and link budget-limited scenarios such as UAV networks, the integration of semantic communications and WPT enables highly energyefficient transmission mechanisms. In this paper, we investigate semantic communications in UAV-enabled WPT networks. To achieve adaptability to varying signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and task requirements, we introduce a multi-layer hybrid bit and semantic communication framework. We adopt a semantic communication efficiency metric and aim to maximize it by jointly optimizing UAV trajectory, energy harvesting base station (EHBS) selection, user association, semantic mode selection, and energy harvesting time allocation. To address this complex longterm optimization problem, we introduce the distributional soft actor-critic (DSAC) algorithm and introduce a decision assistant to further enhance the convergence performance of DSAC. Simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed method and framework and demonstrate that our algorithm can achieve superior long-term optimization performance in dynamic network environments.
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spellingShingle Hybrid Bit and Semantic Communications for UAV-Enabled Wireless Power Transfer Networks: A Decision-Assisted Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
Li, Jingfu
Cui, Jingjing
Huang, Chong
Zhu, Jing
Chu, Zheng
Chen, Mingzhe
Xiao, Pei
Tafazolli, Rahim
Information Theory
Signal Processing
Semantic communications which can significantly reduce spectrum consumption in wireless networks, have recently become a popular research area. When combined with wireless power transfer (WPT), semantic communications can help achieve high spectral efficiency for energy-limited devices in wireless communications. In energy-constrained and link budget-limited scenarios such as UAV networks, the integration of semantic communications and WPT enables highly energyefficient transmission mechanisms. In this paper, we investigate semantic communications in UAV-enabled WPT networks. To achieve adaptability to varying signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and task requirements, we introduce a multi-layer hybrid bit and semantic communication framework. We adopt a semantic communication efficiency metric and aim to maximize it by jointly optimizing UAV trajectory, energy harvesting base station (EHBS) selection, user association, semantic mode selection, and energy harvesting time allocation. To address this complex longterm optimization problem, we introduce the distributional soft actor-critic (DSAC) algorithm and introduce a decision assistant to further enhance the convergence performance of DSAC. Simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed method and framework and demonstrate that our algorithm can achieve superior long-term optimization performance in dynamic network environments.
title Hybrid Bit and Semantic Communications for UAV-Enabled Wireless Power Transfer Networks: A Decision-Assisted Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
topic Information Theory
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00668