1. GRLinQ: An Intelligent Spectrum Sharing Mechanism for Device-to-Device Communications with Graph Reinforcement Learning
- Author
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Shan, Zhiwei, Yi, Xinping, Liang, Le, Liao, Chung-Shou, and Jin, Shi
- Subjects
Computer Science - Networking and Internet Architecture ,Computer Science - Information Theory ,Computer Science - Machine Learning - Abstract
Device-to-device (D2D) spectrum sharing in wireless communications is a challenging non-convex combinatorial optimization problem, involving entangled link scheduling and power control in a large-scale network. The state-of-the-art methods, either from a model-based or a data-driven perspective, exhibit certain limitations such as the critical need for channel state information (CSI) and/or a large number of (solved) instances (e.g., network layouts) as training samples. To advance this line of research, we propose a novel hybrid model/datadriven spectrum sharing mechanism with graph reinforcement learning for link scheduling (GRLinQ), injecting information theoretical insights into machine learning models, in such a way that link scheduling and power control can be solved in an intelligent yet explainable manner. Through an extensive set of experiments, GRLinQ demonstrates superior performance to the existing model-based and data-driven link scheduling and/or power control methods, with a relaxed requirement for CSI, a substantially reduced number of unsolved instances as training samples, a possible distributed deployment, reduced online/offline computational complexity, and more remarkably excellent scalability and generalizability over different network scenarios and system configurations.
- Published
- 2024