Enhancing Secrecy in UAV RSMA Networks: Deep Unfolding Meets Deep Reinforcement Learning

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the maximization of the secrecy rate in multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) network. A joint beamforming, rate allocation, and UAV trajectory optimization problem is formulated which is nonconvex. Hence, the problem is transformed into a Markov decision problem and a novel multiagent deep reinforcement learning (DRL) framework is designed. The proposed framework (named DUN-DRL) combines deep unfolding to design beamforming and rate allocation, data-driven to design the UAV trajectory, and deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) for the learning procedure. The proposed DUN-DRL have shown great performance and outperformed other DRL-based methods in the literature.