Deep Dyna-Reinforcement Learning Based on Random Access Control in LEO Satellite IoT Networks
Xiangnan Liu, Haijun Zhang, Keping Long, Arumugam Nallanathan, Victor C. M. Leung
Abstract
Random access schemes in satellite Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks are being considered a key technology of new-type machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. However, the complicated situations and long-distance transmission can make the current random access schemes not suitable for the satellite IoT networks. The random access problem in the satellite IoT networks is studied in this article. A novel random access scheme for machine-type-communication devices (MTCDs) is proposed, to maximize the efficiency of random access for contention-based and contention-free random access. Under the set of random access opportunities (RAOs) and limited delay, the random access control model is designed via maximizing efficiency of random access. The model-free deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm is proposed to tackle the problem based on the random access model. Subsequently, the deep Dyna- <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$Q$ </tex-math></inline-formula> learning algorithm is introduced to deal with the proposed random access control model. In this proposed scheme, the random access model-free DRL algorithm is developed using simulated experience. The proposed algorithms’ performances are discussed, and simulation results show the desirable performance of the proposed DRL methods on different system parameters.