Dynamic Spatial Diversity via Reinforcement Learning for Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communications
2023 (English)In: 28th European Wireless Conference, EW 2023, VDE VERLAG GMBH , 2023, p. 284-289Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Digital transformation within smart manufacturing presents new challenges for wireless communication, demanding stringent reliability and latency. One prominent approach to meet these requirements in 5G technology is to leverage spatial diversity techniques, such as the transmission of duplicated packets via independent user plane paths. While spatial diversity and hardware redundancy ensure high availability and reduced latency, they increase wireless resource utilization significantly. In this paper, we investigate a scenario where large industrial devices can access multiple user plane paths via multiple user equipment. To manage this effectively, we propose a deep Q-network-based reinforcement learning control framework that optimizes spatial diversity use to maximize communication service availability with minimized wireless resource usage. We implement our solution on a 3GPP-compliant simulator for a factory automation scenario. Our results show that our framework can adapt to varying delay bounds and greatly enhance communication service availability compared to the baselines. Remarkably, our method achieves these results more resource-efficiently, evading the baseline's need for double the bandwidth for comparable availability levels.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
VDE VERLAG GMBH , 2023. p. 284-289
Keywords [en]
Communications service availability, cyber-physical systems (CPSs), reinforcement learning (RL), reliability, ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC)
National Category
Telecommunications
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-349863Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85191259400OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-349863DiVA, id: diva2:1882145
Conference
28th European Wireless Conference, EW 2023, Rome, Italy, Oct 2 2023 - Oct 4 2023
Note
Part of ISBN 9783800762262
QC 20240704
2024-07-042024-07-042024-07-04Bibliographically approved