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  • Deep PC-MAC: a deep reinforcement learning pointer-critic media access protocol
    Publication . Al-Tam, Faroq; Mazayev, Andriy; Correia, Noélia; Rodriguez, J.
    Developing artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for communication problems is one of the hottest topics nowadays. This article presents Deep PC-MAC, a novel deep reinforcement learning (DRL) solution to solve the fair coexistence problem (FCP) between heterogeneous nodes in the unlicensed bands. It is based on a hybrid architecture between pointer networks (Ptr-nets) and advantage actor-critic (A2C), i.e., pointer-critic architecture. The proposed model allows base stations to fairly share unlicensed bands with incumbent nodes. It jointly protects the incumbent nodes from spectrum starvation and improves key-performance indicators (KPIs). Deep PC-MAC is trained from scratch with zero-knowledge about FCP and experimental results demonstrate its efficiency when compared to a baseline method.
  • Radio Resource Scheduling with Deep Pointer Networks and Reinforcement Learning
    Publication . Al-Tam, Faroq; Mazayev, Andriy; Correia, Noélia; Rodriguez, J.
    This article presents an artificial intelligence (AI) adaptable solution to handle the radio resource scheduling (RRS) task in 5G networks. RRS is one of the core tasks in radio resource management (RRM) and aims to efficiently allocate frequency domain resources to users. The proposed solution is an advantage pointer critic (APC) deep reinforcement learning (DRL) agent. It is built with a deep pointer network architecture and trained by the policy gradient algorithm. The proposed agent is deployed in a system level simulator and the experimental results demonstrate its adaptability to network dynamics and efficiency when compared to baseline algorithms.