Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning with Graph Q-Networks for Antenna Tuning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01199v1
• Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 17:06:34 GMT
• Title: Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning with Graph Q-Networks for Antenna Tuning
• Authors: Maxime Bouton, Jaeseong Jeong, Jose Outes, Adriano Mendo, Alexandros Nikou
• Abstract summary: The scale of mobile networks makes it challenging to optimize antenna parameters using manual intervention or hand-engineered strategies. We propose a new multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithm to optimize mobile network configurations globally. We empirically demonstrate the performance of the algorithm on an antenna tilt tuning problem and a joint tilt and power control problem in a simulated environment.
• Score: 60.94661435297309
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Future generations of mobile networks are expected to contain more and more antennas with growing complexity and more parameters. Optimizing these parameters is necessary for ensuring the good performance of the network. The scale of mobile networks makes it challenging to optimize antenna parameters using manual intervention or hand-engineered strategies. Reinforcement learning is a promising technique to address this challenge but existing methods often use local optimizations to scale to large network deployments. We propose a new multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithm to optimize mobile network configurations globally. By using a value decomposition approach, our algorithm can be trained from a global reward function instead of relying on an ad-hoc decomposition of the network performance across the different cells. The algorithm uses a graph neural network architecture which generalizes to different network topologies and learns coordination behaviors. We empirically demonstrate the performance of the algorithm on an antenna tilt tuning problem and a joint tilt and power control problem in a simulated environment.

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