Hierarchical Task Offloading and Trajectory Optimization in Low-Altitude Intelligent Networks Via Auction and Diffusion-based MARL

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.11862v1
• Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2025 08:14:45 GMT
• Title: Hierarchical Task Offloading and Trajectory Optimization in Low-Altitude Intelligent Networks Via Auction and Diffusion-based MARL
• Authors: Jiahao You, Ziye Jia, Can Cui, Chao Dong, Qihui Wu, Zhu Han,
• Abstract summary: Low-altitude intelligent networks (LAINs) can support mission-critical applications such as disaster response, environmental monitoring, and real-time sensing.<n>These systems face key challenges, including energy-constrained UAVs, task arrivals, and heterogeneous computing resources.<n>We propose an integrated air-ground collaborative network and formulate a time-dependent integer nonlinear programming problem that jointly optimize UAV trajectory planning and task offloading decisions.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The low-altitude intelligent networks (LAINs) emerge as a promising architecture for delivering low-latency and energy-efficient edge intelligence in dynamic and infrastructure-limited environments. By integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), aerial base stations, and terrestrial base stations, LAINs can support mission-critical applications such as disaster response, environmental monitoring, and real-time sensing. However, these systems face key challenges, including energy-constrained UAVs, stochastic task arrivals, and heterogeneous computing resources. To address these issues, we propose an integrated air-ground collaborative network and formulate a time-dependent integer nonlinear programming problem that jointly optimizes UAV trajectory planning and task offloading decisions. The problem is challenging to solve due to temporal coupling among decision variables. Therefore, we design a hierarchical learning framework with two timescales. At the large timescale, a Vickrey-Clarke-Groves auction mechanism enables the energy-aware and incentive-compatible trajectory assignment. At the small timescale, we propose the diffusion-heterogeneous-agent proximal policy optimization, a generative multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithm that embeds latent diffusion models into actor networks. Each UAV samples actions from a Gaussian prior and refines them via observation-conditioned denoising, enhancing adaptability and policy diversity. Extensive simulations show that our framework outperforms baselines in energy efficiency, task success rate, and convergence performance.

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