D3PG-Light: A Lightweight and Stable Resource Scheduling Framework for UAV-Integrated Sensing, Communication, and Computation Systems
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are gradually emerging as key platforms for Integrated Sensing, Communication, and Computation (ISCC) systems in next-generation wireless networks. However, strict resource constraints and task coupling make static allocation inefficient in dynamic environments. This paper studies a UAV-driven ISCC system in which a single UAV dynamically allocates communication bandwidth, sensing resources, and computing power. Considering that sensing data in mission-critical applications is highly time-sensitive, minimizing the response time is paramount. To reduce system latency while maintaining sensing quality and energy efficiency, we propose D3PG-Light, a deployment oriented and stability-enhanced refinement of the deep reinforcement learning framework, specifically tailored for real-time resource scheduling under UAV hardware constraints. D3PG-Light incorporates an adaptive gradient stabilization mechanism, Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), and feature fusion to enhance training stability. Simulation results based on real air-ground channel measurements show that D3PG-Light converges faster and achieves more stable learning behavior than DDPG, TD3, and the original D3PG. In particular, the proposed method reduces the 95th-percentile latency from over 100 ms to approximately 24 ms, achieves higher converged reward values, and requires fewer than 50 k model parameters. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of D3PG-Light for latency-sensitive UAV-ISCC applications.
Authors
- Yebo Zhou
- Qing Cheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1579-2007)
- Wenwen Wu
Institutions
- Civil Aviation Flight University of China (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Sensors
- Published
- 2026-03-13
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/s26061829
- Primary Topic
- UAV Applications and Optimization
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00