Autonomous Deployment of Aerial Base Station Without Network-Side Assistance in Emergency Scenarios Based on Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning

Aerial base station (AeBS) is a promising technology for providing wireless coverage to ground user equipment. Traditional methods of optimizing AeBS networks often rely on pre-known distribution models of ground user equipment. However, in practical scenarios such as natural disasters or temporary large-scale public events, the distribution of user clusters is often unknown, posing challenges for the deployment and application of AeBS. To adapt to complex and unknown user environments, this paper studies a method of estimating information from local to global and proposes a multi-agent AeBSs autonomous deployment algorithm based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL). This method attempts to dynamically deploy AeBS to autonomously identify hotspots by sensing user equipment signals without network-side assistance, providing a more comprehensive and intelligent solution for AeBS deployment. Simulation results indicate that our method effectively guides the autonomous deployment of AeBS in emergency scenarios, addressing the challenge of the lack of network-side assistance.