The Internet of Things (IoT) serves as a crucial element in interconnecting diverse devices within the realm of smart technology. However, the energy consumption of IoT technology has become a notable challenge and an area of interest for researchers. With the aim of achieving an IoT with low power consumption, green IoT has been introduced. The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) represents a highly innovative approach for creating a sustainable green IoT network. UAVs offer advantages in terms of flexibility, mobility, and cost. Moreover, device-to-device (D2D) communication is essential in emergency communications, due to its ability to support direct communication between devices. The intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is also a hopeful technology which reconstructs the radio propagation environment and provides a possible solution to reduce co-channel interference resulting from spectrum sharing for D2D communications. The investigation in this paper hence focuses on energy-efficient UAV-IRS-assisted D2D communications for green IoT. In particular, a problem of optimization aimed at maximizing the system’s average energy efficiency (EE) is formulated, firstly, by simultaneously optimizing the power coefficients of all D2D transmitters, the UAV’s trajectory, and the base station (BS)’s active beamforming, along with the IRS’s phase shifts. Second, to address the problem, we develop a multi-agent twin delayed deep deterministic policy gradient (MATD3)-based scheme to find a near-optimal solution, where D2D transmitters, the BS, and the UAV cooperatively learn to improve EE and suppress the interference. To conclude, numerical simulations are conducted to assess the availability of the proposed scheme, and the simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme surpasses the baseline approaches in both convergence speed and EE performance.


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    Title :

    Energy-Efficient Device-to-Device Communications for Green Internet of Things Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Mounted Intelligent Reflecting Surface


    Contributors:
    Fangqing Tan (author) / Shuo Pang (author) / Yashuai Cao (author) / Hongbin Chen (author) / Tiejun Lv (author)


    Publication date :

    2024




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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