Hu, B. orcid.org/0000-0003-4821-0448, Liu, H., Cao, H. orcid.org/0009-0005-0392-6241 et al. (3 more authors) (2026) Digital twin-assisted large AI task-aware edge offloading and resource allocation for low-altitude wireless sensor networks. IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Sensors, 3. pp. 159-170. ISSN: 2836-2071
Abstract
Emerging vehicle-to-everything (V2X) applications, especially for smart transportation, require high-accuracy sensing and low-latency communications and computation; however, existing V2X architectures that deal with sensing, communication, and computation separately are ill-equipped to meet these coupled requirements. In this article, we propose a framework that combines integrated sensing and communications and digital twins with low-altitude edge intelligence for V2X, and formulate an optimization problem to minimize the total service delay (i.e., the transmission delay plus the task computation delay) of all vehicular users by jointly optimizing task offloading decisions, communication and computation resource allocation, and the association between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and vehicular users. To solve this problem under fast varying mobility and high-dimensional coupled constraints, we propose a task-aware multiagent resource allocation optimization algorithm, which enables scalable cooperative decision-making, including UAV-vehicular user association, and communication and computation resource allocation. Simulation results show substantial reductions in total service delay over the traditional deep reinforcement learning benchmark, especially in dense, dynamic low-altitude edge intelligent V2X scenarios.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2026 The Authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. For more information, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Digital twins (DTs); edge intelligence; low-altitude networks; multiagent reinforcement learning (MARL); resource management; vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications |
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| Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
| Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Apr 2026 15:04 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Apr 2026 15:04 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Identification Number: | 10.1109/jsas.2026.3679846 |
| Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:240524 |

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