An integrated sensing and communication (ISAC)-enabled on-demand UAV charging framework coordinated by a central base station that discusses deployment considerations, including computational overhead, scalability, and parameter selection, to aid practitioners evaluating the framework for IoT scenarios.
Muhammad Umar Farooq Qaisar, Lin Zhang, Paolo Bellavista et al.· arXiv.org· 0 citations
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a key enabler of next-generation Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems, offering flexible aerial relaying to extend connectivity across dynamic vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) in smart city environments. However, conventional centralized approaches for UAV trajectory planning require continuous global network state aggregation, making them impractical under bandwidth and energy constraints typical of dense urban deployments. In this article, we present TRUAV, a distributed multi-agent reinforcement learning framework based on independent tabular Q-learning for joint UAV trajectory planning and routing enhancement in UAV-aided VANETs. Each UAV is equipped with a local Q-learning agent that operates purely on locally observable information, including vehicle density, packet queue states, and neighbor UAV positions, thereby eliminating the need for global state exchange. A potential-game-inspired reward design encourages spatial diversity and routing-aware UAV positioning among interacting agents while accounting for energy consumption. Numerical simulations over a large urban area with 200 mobile vehicles show that the proposed TRUAV framework achieves network coverage and packet delivery ratios comparable to centralized deep reinforcement learning methods, while also improving relay delay and energy efficiency. Finally, we discuss emerging challenges and future research directions for distributed multi-agent UAV-assisted IoT systems.
Muhammad Umar Farooq Qaisar, Lin Zhang, Zhen Chen et al.· arXiv.org· 0 citations
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