Dynamic Multichannel Access for 5G and Beyond with Fast Time-Varying Channel

Abstract

In 5G and beyond wireless communication systems, providing satisfactory service to users in high-mobility scenarios becomes very essential. Unstable service supply caused by frequent handover under high-mobility compromises the service experience of users. Moreover, the demanding requirements for processing delays and non-immediate information processing errors are particularly prominent. This paper proposes a novel learning-based approach to solving the dynamic multichannel access (DMCA) problem under fast time-varying channel arising from high-mobility. Specifically, we first propose the subjective experience-based quality of service, and formulate the corresponding optimization problem based on the designed access criterion. Invoking our proposed prediction-based deep deterministic policy gradient algorithm and incremental learning-based online channel prediction model, a novel DMCA scheme, which combines the recurrent neural network with deep reinforcement learning, is proposed. Corroborated by experiments built in real channel data, the performance of proposed learning-based DMCA scheme approaches that derived from the exhaustive search method when making a decision at each time-slot, and is superior to the exhaustive search method when making a decision for every few time-slots. Furthermore, our scheme significantly reduces processing delays and effectively alleviates errors caused by the non-immediacy of information acquisition and processing.