{"id":"https://openalex.org/W4386857833","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tcc.2023.3307582","title":"MARS: A DRL-Based Multi-Task Resource Scheduling Framework for UAV With IRS-Assisted Mobile Edge Computing System","display_name":"MARS: A DRL-Based Multi-Task Resource Scheduling Framework for UAV With IRS-Assisted Mobile Edge Computing System","publication_year":2023,"publication_date":"2023-09-19","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W4386857833","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tcc.2023.3307582"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1109/tcc.2023.3307582","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tcc.2023.3307582","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S2492498579","display_name":"IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing","issn_l":"2168-7161","issn":["2168-7161","2372-0018"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310319808","host_organization_name":"Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310319808"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing","raw_type":"journal-article"},"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"green","oa_url":"http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/2438/27235/4/FullText.pdf","any_repository_has_fulltext":true},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5005311317","display_name":"Feibo Jiang","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0235-0253"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I173759888","display_name":"Hunan Normal University","ror":"https://ror.org/053w1zy07","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I173759888"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Feibo Jiang","raw_affiliation_strings":["Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Language Information Processing, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0235-0253","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Language Information Processing, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I173759888"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5000881104","display_name":"Yubo Peng","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9684-2971"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I173759888","display_name":"Hunan Normal University","ror":"https://ror.org/053w1zy07","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I173759888"]},{"id":"https://openalex.org/I3130607311","display_name":"Changsha Normal University","ror":"https://ror.org/02sqk3z62","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I3130607311"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Yubo Peng","raw_affiliation_strings":["School of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9684-2971","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"School of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I173759888","https://openalex.org/I3130607311"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5022523766","display_name":"Kezhi Wang","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8602-0800"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I59433898","display_name":"Brunel University of London","ror":"https://ror.org/00dn4t376","country_code":"GB","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I124357947","https://openalex.org/I59433898"]}],"countries":["GB"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Kezhi Wang","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Computer Science, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, U.K"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8602-0800","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Computer Science, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, U.K","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I59433898"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5079505833","display_name":"Li Dong","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0127-8480"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I49934816","display_name":"Hunan University of Technology","ror":"https://ror.org/04j3vr751","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I49934816"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Li Dong","raw_affiliation_strings":["Xiangjiang Laboratory, Hunan University of Technology and Business, Changsha, China"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0127-8480","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Xiangjiang Laboratory, Hunan University of Technology and Business, Changsha, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I49934816"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5100435639","display_name":"Kun Yang","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6782-6689"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I110002522","display_name":"University of Essex","ror":"https://ror.org/02nkf1q06","country_code":"GB","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I110002522"]},{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210143016","display_name":"Changchun Institute of Technology","ror":"https://ror.org/03r6wam78","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4210143016"]}],"countries":["CN","GB"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Kun Yang","raw_affiliation_strings":["School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester, U.K","Changchun Institute of Technology, Changchun, China"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6782-6689","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester, U.K","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I110002522"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Changchun Institute of Technology, Changchun, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210143016"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":2,"institutions_distinct_count":6,"corresponding_author_ids":[],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":24.8997,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":36,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.9939369,"is_in_top_1_percent":true,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":98,"max":100},"biblio":{"volume":"11","issue":"4","first_page":"3700","last_page":"3712"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11133","display_name":"UAV Applications and Optimization","score":0.9976999759674072,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2202","display_name":"Aerospace Engineering"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/22","display_name":"Engineering"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11133","display_name":"UAV Applications and Optimization","score":0.9976999759674072,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2202","display_name":"Aerospace Engineering"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/22","display_name":"Engineering"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10273","display_name":"IoT and Edge/Fog Computing","score":0.9973000288009644,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1705","display_name":"Computer Networks and Communications"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13553","display_name":"Age of Information Optimization","score":0.9908999800682068,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1705","display_name":"Computer Networks and Communications"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-science","display_name":"Computer science","score":0.772363543510437},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/reinforcement-learning","display_name":"Reinforcement learning","score":0.7384950518608093},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/scheduling","display_name":"Scheduling (production processes)","score":0.5473560690879822},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/energy-consumption","display_name":"Energy consumption","score":0.5355809330940247},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/mars-exploration-program","display_name":"Mars Exploration Program","score":0.5319061279296875},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/distributed-computing","display_name":"Distributed computing","score":0.5248867869377136},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/dynamic-priority-scheduling","display_name":"Dynamic priority scheduling","score":0.41777920722961426},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/artificial-intelligence","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","score":0.38683992624282837},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/real-time-computing","display_name":"Real-time computing","score":0.3811120390892029},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/mathematical-optimization","display_name":"Mathematical optimization","score":0.2040373980998993},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-network","display_name":"Computer network","score":0.13928094506263733},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/engineering","display_name":"Engineering","score":0.12728378176689148}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.772363543510437},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C97541855","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q830687","display_name":"Reinforcement learning","level":2,"score":0.7384950518608093},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C206729178","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2271896","display_name":"Scheduling (production processes)","level":2,"score":0.5473560690879822},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2780165032","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16869822","display_name":"Energy consumption","level":2,"score":0.5355809330940247},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C83260615","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6773121","display_name":"Mars Exploration Program","level":2,"score":0.5319061279296875},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C120314980","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180634","display_name":"Distributed computing","level":1,"score":0.5248867869377136},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C107568181","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5319000","display_name":"Dynamic priority scheduling","level":3,"score":0.41777920722961426},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C154945302","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11660","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","level":1,"score":0.38683992624282837},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C79403827","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3988","display_name":"Real-time computing","level":1,"score":0.3811120390892029},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C126255220","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141495","display_name":"Mathematical optimization","level":1,"score":0.2040373980998993},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C31258907","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1301371","display_name":"Computer network","level":1,"score":0.13928094506263733},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C127413603","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11023","display_name":"Engineering","level":0,"score":0.12728378176689148},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C119599485","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43035","display_name":"Electrical engineering","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C5119721","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q220501","display_name":"Quality of service","level":2,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C33923547","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q395","display_name":"Mathematics","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C121332964","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q413","display_name":"Physics","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C1276947","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q333","display_name":"Astronomy","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":2,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1109/tcc.2023.3307582","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tcc.2023.3307582","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S2492498579","display_name":"IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing","issn_l":"2168-7161","issn":["2168-7161","2372-0018"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310319808","host_organization_name":"Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310319808"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing","raw_type":"journal-article"},{"id":"pmh:oai:bura.brunel.ac.uk:2438/27235","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/27235","pdf_url":"http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/2438/27235/4/FullText.pdf","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306401473","display_name":"Brunel University Research Archive (BURA) (Brunel University London)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I59433898","host_organization_name":"Brunel University of London","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I59433898"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"","raw_type":"Article"}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"pmh:oai:bura.brunel.ac.uk:2438/27235","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/27235","pdf_url":"http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/2438/27235/4/FullText.pdf","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306401473","display_name":"Brunel University Research Archive (BURA) (Brunel University London)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I59433898","host_organization_name":"Brunel University of London","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I59433898"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"","raw_type":"Article"},"sustainable_development_goals":[{"display_name":"Affordable and clean energy","score":0.9100000262260437,"id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/7"}],"awards":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/G3422720569","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"41604117","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320321001","funder_display_name":"National Natural Science Foundation of China"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/G4997528401","display_name":"\u57fa\u4e8e\u5b66\u4e60\u673a\u5236\u7684\u5e7f\u57df\u7535\u78c1\u6cd5\u6fc0\u7535\u4fe1\u606f\u63d0\u53d6\u7814\u7a76","funder_award_id":"41904127","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320321001","funder_display_name":"National Natural Science Foundation of China"}],"funders":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320321001","display_name":"National Natural Science Foundation of China","ror":"https://ror.org/01h0zpd94"}],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":false,"pdf":true},"content_urls":{"pdf":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W4386857833.pdf"},"referenced_works_count":45,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W2061438946","https://openalex.org/W2069514727","https://openalex.org/W2624989916","https://openalex.org/W2736601468","https://openalex.org/W2740268063","https://openalex.org/W2778138942","https://openalex.org/W2899051739","https://openalex.org/W2963060851","https://openalex.org/W2963540014","https://openalex.org/W2963562791","https://openalex.org/W2963616027","https://openalex.org/W2990467641","https://openalex.org/W2999201871","https://openalex.org/W3000577820","https://openalex.org/W3094558053","https://openalex.org/W3110391149","https://openalex.org/W3143345281","https://openalex.org/W3194390908","https://openalex.org/W3200501610","https://openalex.org/W4205091231","https://openalex.org/W4205681265","https://openalex.org/W4206917335","https://openalex.org/W4212849585","https://openalex.org/W4213191720","https://openalex.org/W4214717370","https://openalex.org/W4221036114","https://openalex.org/W4239943352","https://openalex.org/W4285070849","https://openalex.org/W4285169156","https://openalex.org/W4285189370","https://openalex.org/W4296706044","https://openalex.org/W4312717992","https://openalex.org/W4319988532","https://openalex.org/W4320002923","https://openalex.org/W4362563519","https://openalex.org/W4394672593","https://openalex.org/W6741002519","https://openalex.org/W6742852309","https://openalex.org/W6747473740","https://openalex.org/W6748839928","https://openalex.org/W6751972096","https://openalex.org/W6767434776","https://openalex.org/W6777944346","https://openalex.org/W6849896277","https://openalex.org/W6864350279"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W3139034309","https://openalex.org/W2770042457","https://openalex.org/W2789392837","https://openalex.org/W805044372","https://openalex.org/W43529266","https://openalex.org/W2998025959","https://openalex.org/W2981831722","https://openalex.org/W770322104","https://openalex.org/W2041783725","https://openalex.org/W3149825461"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"This":[0],"article":[1],"studies":[2],"a":[3,23,43,50,69,95,104,114,124,141,160,168],"dynamic":[4,185],"Mobile":[5],"Edge":[6],"Computing":[7],"(MEC)":[8],"system":[9,41],"assisted":[10],"by":[11,156],"Unmanned":[12],"Aerial":[13],"Vehicles":[14],"(UAVs)":[15],"and":[16,36,79,85,113,123,194],"Intelligent":[17],"Reflective":[18],"Surfaces":[19],"(IRSs).":[20],"We":[21,48],"propose":[22,49],"scaleable":[24],"resource":[25],"scheduling":[26],"algorithm":[27],"to":[28,62,82,109,119,129,144,148,150,179],"minimize":[29],"the":[30,39,64,76,87,131,135,146,151,165,176,181,184,192,197],"energy":[31],"consumption":[32],"of":[33,46,90,134,154,162,196],"all":[34],"UEs":[35],"UAVs":[37,155],"in":[38,102,164,183],"MEC":[40],"with":[42,75,98],"variable":[44],"number":[45,153],"UAVs.":[47],"Multi-tAsk":[51],"Resource":[52],"Scheduling":[53],"(MARS)":[54],"framework":[55],"based":[56],"on":[57],"Deep":[58],"Reinforcement":[59],"Learning":[60],"(DRL)":[61],"solve":[63],"problem.":[65],"First,":[66],"we":[67,93,139],"present":[68,94],"novel":[70],"Advantage":[71],"Actor-Critic":[72],"(A2C)":[73],"structure":[74],"state-value":[77],"critic":[78,125],"entropy-enhanced":[80],"actor":[81],"reduce":[83],"variance":[84],"enhance":[86,180],"policy":[88],"search":[89],"DRL.":[91],"Then,":[92],"multi-head":[96],"agent":[97,147],"three":[99],"different":[100],"heads":[101],"which":[103],"classification":[105],"head":[106,116,126],"is":[107,117,127,173],"applied":[108],"make":[110],"offloading":[111],"decisions":[112],"regression":[115],"presented":[118],"allocate":[120],"computational":[121],"resources,":[122],"introduced":[128,174],"estimate":[130],"state":[132],"value":[133],"selected":[136],"action.":[137],"Next,":[138],"introduce":[140],"multi-task":[142],"controller":[143],"adjust":[145],"adapt":[149],"varying":[152],"loading":[157],"or":[158],"unloading":[159],"part":[161],"weights":[163],"agent.":[166],"Finally,":[167],"Light":[169],"Wolf":[170],"Search":[171],"(LWS)":[172],"as":[175],"action":[177,186],"refinement":[178],"exploration":[182],"space.":[187],"The":[188],"numerical":[189],"results":[190],"demonstrate":[191],"feasibility":[193],"efficiency":[195],"MARS":[198],"framework.":[199]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2026,"cited_by_count":3},{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":21},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":12}],"updated_date":"2026-07-22T07:51:19.307946","created_date":"2025-10-10T00:00:00"}