Lu Wang
Abstract
Supporting a massive amount of Internet of Things applications requires a large pool of spectrum. DSM is a promising ecosystem to improve the spectrum efficiency. In the era of LoRaWAN, the physical hardware constraints, along with the bandwidth-hungry applications pose new challenges. In this article, we investigate a novel deep-reinforcement-learning-based spectrum-sharing paradigm, termed Intelligent Overlapping, that explores partially overlapping channels for concurrent spectrum access in LoRaWAN. Our key insight is to leverage the coding redundancy to expand the available spectrum without complicated data processing algorithms. In particular, we learn the extra coding redundancy from the data on the non-overlapping spectrum via a deep-Q-learning network, and we apply such redundancy to recover the data on the overlapping spectrum. In the Media Access Control layer, we predict the channel condition and strategically learn and assign the appropriate overlapping portion to the concurrent access end devices. In the Physical layer, we harness interleaving to randomize the mutual interference to ensure that all the data remains decodable. Simulation results demonstrate that Intelligent Overlapping greatly improves the spectrum efficiency with a fast convergence rate compared to the conventional DSM mechanisms.
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