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Deep Reinforcement Learning For Multi-User Access Control in Non-Terrestrial Networks

Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTNs) composed of space-borne (e.g., satellites) and airborne vehicles (e.g., drones and blimps) have recently been proposed by 3GPP as a new paradigm of infrastructures to enhance the capacity and coverage of existing terrestrial wireless networks. The mobility of non-terrestrial base stations (NT-BSs) however leads to a dynamic environment, which imposes unique challenges for handover and throughput optimization particularly in multi-user access control for NTNs. To achieve performance optimization, each terrestrial user equipment (UE) should autonomously estimate the dynamics of moving NT-BSs, which is different from the existing user access control schemes in terrestrial wireless networks. Consequently, new learning schemes for optimum multi-user access control are desired. In this article, we therefore propose a UE-driven deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based scheme, in which a centralized agent deployed at the backhaul side of NT-BSs is responsible for training the parameter of a deep Q-network (DQN), and each UE independently makes its own access decisions based on the parameter from the trained DQN. With the proposed scheme, each UE is able to access a proper NT-BS intelligently to enhance the long-term system throughput and avoid frequent handovers among NT-BSs. Through comprehensive simulation studies, we justify the performance of the proposed scheme, and show its effectiveness in addressing the fundamental issues in the NTNs deployment.