Joint Communication-Caching-Computing Resource Allocation for Bidirectional Data Computation in IRS-Assisted Hybrid UAV-Terrestrial Network  

作　　者：Yangzhe LIAO Lin LIU Yuanyan SONG Ning XU 

机构地区：[1]School of Information Engineering,Wuhan University of Technology,Wuhan 430070,China

出　　处：《Chinese Journal of Electronics》2024年第4期1093-1103,共11页电子学报（英文版）

基　　金：Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 52201417);National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2021ZD 0114600);Shenzhen Science and Technology Program (Grant No. JCYJ20220818102002005)。

摘　　要：Joint communication-caching-computing resource allocation in wireless inland waterway communications enables resource-constrained unmanned surface vehicles(USVs) to provision computation-intensive and latencysensitive tasks forward beyond fifth-generation(B5G) and sixth-generation(6G) era. The power of such resource allocation cannot be fully studied unless bidirectional data computation is properly managed. A novel intelligent reflecting surface(IRS)-assisted hybrid UAV-terrestrial network architecture is proposed with bidirectional tasks. The sum of uplink and downlink bandwidth minimization problem is formulated by jointly considering link quality, task execution mode selection, UAVs trajectory, and task execution latency constraints. A heuristic algorithm is proposed to solve the formulated challenging problem. We divide the original challenging problem into two subproblems, i.e., the joint optimization problem of USVs offloading decision, caching decision and task execution mode selection, and the joint optimization problem of UAVs trajectory and IRS phase shift-vector design. The Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions are utilized to solve the first subproblem and the enhanced differential evolution algorithm is proposed to solve the latter one. The results show that the proposed solution can significantly decrease bandwidth consumption in comparison with the selected advanced algorithms. The results also prove that the sum of bandwidth can be remarkably decreased by implementing a higher number of IRS elements.

关 键 词：Intelligent reflecting surface Unmanned surface vehicles Bidirectional data computation Resource allocation 

分 类 号：TN929.5[电子电信—通信与信息系统] V279[电子电信—信息与通信工程]