无人机辅助海洋物联网数据采集与计算卸载策略研究
Research on UAV-Assisted Data Collection and Computation Offloading Strategies for Marine Internet of Things
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摘要: 在海洋物联网中,无人机(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, UAV)凭借其灵活部署与远程覆盖能力,能够极大地提升数据采集与边缘计算效率。但由于其计算和能量资源有限,UAV难以独立应对高密度数据处理需求。同时,正交多址接入方式频谱利用率较低,难以有效应对海上感知设备(Sensing Devices, SDs)高并发数据上传压力。为此,本文提出一种基于非正交多址接入(Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access, NOMA)的UAV辅助数据采集与计算卸载的联合优化策略。具体而言,UAV作为空中边缘计算节点,利用NOMA技术从多个海上SDs并行收集数据。当部分SD完成数据上传后,UAV根据其计算能力对部分已采集数据进行本地处理,同时将剩余数据卸载至地面基站,实现空地协同计算,从而缓解本地资源压力并提升系统整体处理能力。在此基础上,本文定义了UAV辅助海洋物联网数据采集与计算卸载问题,以最小化系统总能耗为目标,联合优化SDs和UAV的传输功率、UAV的飞行轨迹、计算资源分配及数据卸载比例。针对该非凸优化问题,设计了一种基于深度确定性策略梯度(Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient, DDPG)与块坐标下降法(Block Coordinate Descent, BCD)的联合求解框架,其中DDPG用于优化UAV的轨迹与传输功率策略,BCD用于卸载比例与计算资源分配优化。仿真结果表明,所提联合优化算法在多种场景下均表现出显著的能效优势。与基准方案相比,本文所提方案在系统总能耗方面最多可降低23.58%,有效提升了复杂海洋环境中数据采集与计算处理的整体能效水平。Abstract: In the marine Internet of Things (M-IoT), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer flexible deployment and wide-area coverage, significantly enhancing the efficiency of data collection and edge computing. However, due to their limited computational and energy resources, UAVs struggle to handle high-density data processing demands independently. Meanwhile, traditional orthogonal multiple access techniques suffer from low spectral efficiency, making them insufficient for managing the high-concurrency data uploading demands of maritime sensing devices (SDs). To address these challenges, this paper proposes a joint optimization strategy for UAV-assisted data collection and computation offloading based on non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). In the proposed framework, the UAV serves as an aerial edge computing node and uses NOMA to simultaneously collect data from multiple maritime SDs. After SDs complete data transmission, the UAV performs part of the collected data locally while offloading the remaining to a ground base station, enabling air-ground collaborative computing. This approach alleviates local resource limitations and enhances the overall system processing capability. Based on this architecture, we formulate a UAV-assisted data collection and computation offloading problem for M-IoT, aiming to minimize the total system energy consumption by jointly optimizing SD and UAV transmission power, UAV flight trajectory, computational resource allocation, and the data offloading ratios. To solve the resulting non-convex optimization problem, we develop a hybrid solution framework that combines deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) with block coordinate descent (BCD). DDPG is employed to optimize the UAV trajectory and transmission power strategies, while BCD handles the optimization of the offloading ratios and computational resource allocation. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed joint optimization algorithm achieves significant energy efficiency improvements across various scenarios. Compared with baseline schemes, the proposed approach reduces total system energy consumption by up to 23.58%, effectively improving the energy efficiency of data collection and processing in complex marine environments.
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