云边端场景下基于多智能体深度强化学习的边缘缓存策略

王海艳; 常博; 骆健

doi:10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2025108

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学术论文 | 更新时间：2025-07-04

- 云边端场景下基于多智能体深度强化学习的边缘缓存策略
- Edge caching strategy based on multi-agent deep reinforcement learning in cloud-edge-end scenarios
- 通信学报 2025年46卷第6期页码：153-167
- 作者机构：
  
  1.南京邮电大学计算机学院，江苏南京 210023
  2.大数据安全与智能处理省高校重点实验室，江苏南京210023
- 作者简介：
  
  [ "王海艳（1974- ），女，江苏东台人，博士，南京邮电大学教授、博士生导师，主要研究方向为服务计算、可信计算、大数据应用与云计算技术、隐私保护技术等。" ]
  [ "常博（1999- ），男，河北张家口人，南京邮电大学硕士生，主要研究方向为边缘计算。" ]
  [ "骆健（1976- ），女，江西赣州人，南京邮电大学副教授，主要研究方向为服务计算、可信计算、服务推荐等。" ]
- 基金信息：
  
  国家自然科学基金资助项目(62272243)
- DOI：10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2025108
  中图分类号： TP393
- 收稿日期：2025-04-12，
  
  修回日期：2025-06-03，
  
  纸质出版日期：2025-06-25
- 稿件说明：
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王海艳,常博,骆健.云边端场景下基于多智能体深度强化学习的边缘缓存策略[J].通信学报,2025,46(06):153-167.

WANG Haiyan,CHANG Bo,LUO Jian.Edge caching strategy based on multi-agent deep reinforcement learning in cloud-edge-end scenarios[J].Journal on Communications,2025,46(06):153-167.
王海艳,常博,骆健.云边端场景下基于多智能体深度强化学习的边缘缓存策略[J].通信学报,2025,46(06):153-167. DOI： 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2025108.

WANG Haiyan,CHANG Bo,LUO Jian.Edge caching strategy based on multi-agent deep reinforcement learning in cloud-edge-end scenarios[J].Journal on Communications,2025,46(06):153-167. DOI： 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2025108.

摘要

云边端场景下，边缘缓存技术旨在通过促进边缘节点间的协同内容分发，减轻回程链路的流量负载并提升服务质量。考虑内容流行度的动态变化，提出了一种基于时间卷积网络的内容请求状态预测（TCNCRSP）模型。在此基础上，以最大化累积奖励为目标，提出了一种基于多智能体深度强化学习算法的边缘缓存策略，通过在云端利用长短期记忆（LSTM）网络对各边缘节点的状态数据进行降维处理，生成低维全局状态，减少状态共享所需的通信成本。实验结果显示，所提方法显著提升了缓存命中率和服务质量，同时降低了系统开销。

Abstract

In cloud-edge-end scenarios

edge caching technology aims to promote collaborative content distribution among edge nodes

thereby alleviating the traffic load on backhaul links and enhancing service quality. Considering the dynamic changes in content popularity

a time convolution network based content request state prediction (TCNCRSP) model for predicting content popularity was proposed. On this basis

aiming to maximize cumulative rewards

a multi-agent deep reinforcement learning algorithm based on edge caching strategy was proposed. This strategy was implemented using long short-term memory (LSTM) network in the cloud to perform dimensionality reduction on the state data of each edge node

thereby generating low-dimensional global states. This approach was used to reduce the communication costs required for state sharing. The experimental results show that the proposed methods significantly improve the cache hit rate and service quality

while also reducing system overhead.

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