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Collaborative Trajectory and Resource Optimization in Multi-UAV MEC Under Jamming: An LLM-Guided MARL Framework

2026 · IEEE Transactions on Communications · Vol 74, pp. 11819-11831 · 0 citations · 45 references
Computer Science

Abstract

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) systems provide flexible computing services for resource-constrained devices, but malicious jamming attacks introduce dynamic channel conditions and resource competition, making joint trajectory and resource optimization challenging. This paper investigates this problem in multi-UAV MEC systems under jamming, aiming to minimize delay and energy consumption while ensuring anti-jamming robustness. The problem is formulated as a decentralized partially observable Markov decision process (Dec-POMDP). However, traditional multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) approaches struggle with high exploration costs and low sampling efficiency in high-dimensional hybrid action spaces. To overcome these limitations, we propose an LLM-guided MARL framework instantiated with the multi-agent deep deterministic policy gradient (MADDPG), which leverages LLM-generated semantic trajectory prompts to dynamically constrain exploration within the continuous action space, effectively compressing the policy search space and accelerating convergence. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves $3.4\times $ to $5\times $ faster convergence over hierarchical MADDPG, MADDPG, and independent soft actor-critic (ISAC) baselines, significantly reducing training costs while maintaining superior performance and anti-jamming robustness.

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