{"title":"High-Sample-Efficient Multiagent Reinforcement Learning for Navigation and Collision Avoidance of UAV Swarms in Multitask Environments","authors":"Jiaming Cheng;Ni Li;Ban Wang;Shuhui Bu;Ming Zhou","doi":"10.1109/JIOT.2024.3409169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2024.3409169","url":null,"abstract":"Multiagent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms have shown promise in the Internet of Things devices, such as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms. However, the dynamic nature of large-scale swarm systems, with constantly changing numbers of agents and observed neighbors, poses challenges for MARL adaptation. Existing approaches struggle to extract meaningful features and require a substantial number of experience samples, resulting in low-sample efficiency and high-risk ratios. Moreover, these methods are effective in task-specific scenarios and fail to perform well in multitask settings. To overcome these challenges, this study proposes a high-sample efficient and scalable MARL approach for UAV swarms. The proposed approach incorporates a hypernetwork-based embedding attention (HEA) mechanism for the state representation of the policy network and a multiencoder gated transformer with a multilayer attention (MEGTrMA) mechanism for the value function. The HEA automatically generates weights for each agent to adapt to dynamic scenarios, enhancing representation ability and adaptability while reducing the cost of trial and error for improved learning efficiency. The MEGTrMA captures the contribution of each agent to the global observation, establishing long-term dependencies among them and facilitating stable policy learning in multitask scenarios. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method is scalable, generalizable, and high-sample efficient. Compared to learning from scratch, our method significantly reduces training time to less than one-fifth of the initial time by progressively increasing the number of UAVs and their corresponding neighbors. Additionally, the average number of collisions is reduced by an order of magnitude for large-scale UAV swarms.","PeriodicalId":54347,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Internet of Things Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142595145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Ling Li, Yan Zhang, Lin Yuan, Shuang Li, Xinbo Gao
{"title":"See as You Desire: Scale-adaptive Face Super-Resolution for Varying Low Resolutions","authors":"Ling Li, Yan Zhang, Lin Yuan, Shuang Li, Xinbo Gao","doi":"10.1109/jiot.2024.3492716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2024.3492716","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54347,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Internet of Things Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142594848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eunhyuk Park, Junbeom Kim, Seok-Hwan Park, Osvaldo Simeone, Shlomo Shamai
{"title":"Accelerating Multi-UAV Collaborative Sensing Data Collection: A Hybrid TDMA-NOMA-Cooperative Transmission in Cell-Free MIMO Networks","authors":"Eunhyuk Park, Junbeom Kim, Seok-Hwan Park, Osvaldo Simeone, Shlomo Shamai","doi":"10.1109/jiot.2024.3492709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2024.3492709","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54347,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Internet of Things Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142594847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Payload-Adaptive Hybrid MAC Protocol for Sustainable Internet of Things Networks: Protocol Design and Adaptive Adjustment Mechanisms","authors":"Xinyu Fan, Jie Hu, Kun Yang","doi":"10.1109/jiot.2024.3491358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2024.3491358","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54347,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Internet of Things Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142594838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yang Yang, Haiyang Yu, Yanan Zhao, Ming Chen, Jiewei Du, Yilong Ren
{"title":"A Dynamic Pricing-based Offloading and Resource Allocation Scheme With Data Security for Vehicle Platoon","authors":"Yang Yang, Haiyang Yu, Yanan Zhao, Ming Chen, Jiewei Du, Yilong Ren","doi":"10.1109/jiot.2024.3492694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2024.3492694","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54347,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Internet of Things Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142594840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CD-BISHAC:Cross-Domain Scheme for Blockchain-Based Industrial Internet of Things Security Hybrid Access Control","authors":"Buzhen He, Tao Feng, Chunyan Liu, Chunhua Su","doi":"10.1109/jiot.2024.3492279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2024.3492279","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54347,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Internet of Things Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142594846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"FedSC: A Sidechain-Enhanced Edge Computing Framework for 6G IoT Multiple Scenarios","authors":"Zhou Fang, Shuping Dang, Yang Yang, Zhihui Ge, Xiangcheng Li, Zhenrong Zhang","doi":"10.1109/jiot.2024.3492321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2024.3492321","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54347,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Internet of Things Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142594849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}