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Record W4416707545 · doi:10.1109/jiot.2025.3637515

AMADRL: Privacy-Aware Attention-Based Multiagent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Optimizing Spectral Allocation in 6G Vehicular Networks

2025· article· W4416707545 on OpenAlexafffund
Iqra Batool, Mostafa M. Fouda, Muhammad Ismail, Shikhar Verma, Zubair Md. Fadlullah

Bibliographic record

VenueIEEE Internet of Things Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldEngineering
TopicVehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)
Canadian institutionsWestern University
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaNational Science Foundation
KeywordsReinforcement learningScalabilityQuality of serviceSpectral efficiencyVehicular ad hoc networkLatency (audio)Optimization problemDual (grammatical number)Frequency allocation

Abstract

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The emergence of 6G-enabled Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) networks has created unprecedented demand for ultra-reliable, low-latency spectrum allocation across heterogeneous entities including vehicles, IoT devices, and industrial systems. Current spectrum allocation methods suffer from exponential computational complexity, extensive information sharing requirements, and poor scalability in dense networks. This paper proposes AMADRL (Attention-based Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning), a novel framework employing dual critic networks with multi-head self-attention mechanisms for intelligent spectrum allocation. The dual critic architecture resolves individual-collective optimization conflicts through local critics for independent entity optimization and a global critic with attention-based coordination. Our approach significantly reduces information sharing requirements while handling heterogeneous QoS demands across diverse entity types. Comprehensive experimental evaluation comparing AMADRL against state-of-the-art baselines including MADDPG, MAAC, QMIX, attention-based methods (A-DDPG, MHA-DQN), and game-theoretic approaches reveals that AMADRL achieves superior performance across multiple metrics including spectrum utilization efficiency, interference mitigation, and network scalability, while preserving user privacy and satisfying strict latency constraints required by safety-critical and industrial use cases.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.016

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.242
Teacher spread0.232 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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Published2025
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