UAV-Aided Cellular Communications with Deep Reinforcement Learning Against Jamming

Abstract: Cellular systems are vulnerable to jamming attacks, especially smart jammers that choose their jamming policies such as the jamming channel frequencies and power based on the ongoing communication policies and network states. In this article, we present an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided cellular communication framework against jamming. In this scheme, UAVs use reinforcement learning methods to choose the relay policy for mobile users in cellular systems, if the serving base station is heavily jammed. More specifically, we propose a deep reinforcement learning based UAV relay scheme to help cellular systems resist smart jamming without being aware of the jamming model and the network model in the dynamic game based on the previous anti-jamming relay experiences and the observed current network status. This scheme can achieve the optimal performance after enough interactions with the jammer. Simulation results show that this scheme can reduce the bit error rate of the messages and save energy for the cellular system compared with the existing scheme.