Drone-Assisted Cellular Networks: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach

Drone-cell technology is emerging as a solution to support and backup the cellular network architecture. cell-drones are flexible and provide a more dynamic solution for resource allocation in both scales: spatial and geographic. They allow to increase the bandwidth availability anytime and everywhere according the continuous rate demands. Their fast deployment provide network operators with a reliable solution to face sudden network overload or peak data demands during mass events, without interrupting services and guaranteeing better QoS for users. With these advantages, drone-cell network management is still a complex task. We propose in this paper, a multiagent reinforcement learning approach for dynamic drones-cells management. Our approach is based on an enhanced joint action selection. Results show that our model speed up network learning and provide better network performance.