Cooperative Communications With Relay Selection Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning in Wireless Sensor Networks
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- 28 June 2019
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Sensors Journal
- Vol. 19 (20), 9561-9569
- https://doi.org/10.1109/jsen.2019.2925719
Abstract
Cooperative communication technology has become a research hotspot in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in recent years, and will become one of the key technologies for improving spectrum utilization in wireless communication systems in the future. It leverages cooperation among multiple relay nodes in the wireless network to realize path transmission sharing, thereby improving the system throughput. In this paper, we model the process of cooperative communications with relay selection in WSNs as a Markov decision process and propose DQ-RSS, a deep-reinforcement-learning-based relay selection scheme, in WSNs. In DQ-RSS, a deep-Q-network (DQN) is trained according to the outage probability and mutual information, and the optimal relay is selected from a plurality of relay nodes without the need for a network model or prior data. More specifically, we use DQN to process high-dimensional state spaces and accelerate the learning rate. We compare DQ-RSS with the Q-learning-based relay selection scheme and evaluate the network performance on the basis of three aspects: outage probability, system capacity, and energy consumption. Simulation results indicate that DQ-RSS can achieve better performance on these elements and save the convergence time compared with existing schemes.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (61871339)
- Key Laboratory of Digital Fujian on IoT Communication, Architecture and Safety Technology (2010499)
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