Collaborative Multi-Agent Resource Allocation in C-V2X Mode 4

Malik Muhammad Saad, Md Mahmudul Islam, Muhammad Ashar Tariq, Muhammad Toaha Raza Khan, Dongkyun Kim

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

6 Scopus citations

Abstract

Intelligent Transport System (ITS) provides an efficient solution to road safety traffic. To support safety applications, cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) is developed by third generation partnership project (3GPP). C-V2X support two modes of communication as mode 3 and mode 4. In mode 4, vehicles reserve the resources based on their local observations using semi-persistent scheduling (SPS). If two vehicles, simultaneously select the same resources, it will lead to resource contention. This arises the consensus problem. To overcome this, in this paper we proposed the multi agent collaborative deep reinforcement learning based scheme. A single deep Q network (DQN) is trained for each zone. Each zone is preconfigured with resources which constitute a resource pool. A reward function is shared between the vehicles that belong to the same pool. This approach makes the vehicles to collaborate rather than compete in selecting the resources for their transmission. The proposed scheme is compared with the random resource allocation in C-V2X. The results show that the proposed scheme outperforms even in dense vehicular environment.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICUFN 2021 - 2021 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages7-10
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781728164762
DOIs
StatePublished - 17 Aug 2021
Event12th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN 2021 - Virtual, Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 17 Aug 202120 Aug 2021

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN
Volume2021-August
ISSN (Print)2165-8528
ISSN (Electronic)2165-8536

Conference

Conference12th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN 2021
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityVirtual, Jeju Island
Period17/08/2120/08/21

Keywords

  • Cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X)
  • Deep reinforcement Learning
  • Distributed Resource Allocation
  • Semi-Persistent Scheduling (SPS)

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Collaborative Multi-Agent Resource Allocation in C-V2X Mode 4'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this