Development of an AI-Enabled Q-Agent for Making Data Offloading Decisions in a Multi-RAT Wireless Network

Table 1

A summarized comparative analysis of the existing approaches with the approach presented in this work.

Approaches	Multi-RAT	Dense network	Interference	Model-free RL
A delay aware offloading and network selection using the backward induction algorithm [6]	✓	✗	✗	✗
A data offloading approach for a multi-RAT network using the Q-learning algorithm [7]	✓	✗	✗	✓
A user association approach in a heterogeneous wireless network using DQN [8]	✗	✗	✓	✓
RAT access in a multi-RAT network using a multiagent RL algorithm [9]	✓	✗	✗	✓
Estimation of offloading gains provided by Wi-Fi RAT by using stochastic geometry [10]	✗	✓	✓	✗
Dynamic offloading and resource allocation in multiaccess edge servers using the genetic algorithm and DQN [11]	✓	✓	✗	✓
An incentive based contract-theoretic approach for third-party operators [12]	✓	✓	✓	✗
A model-based data offloading approach for a multi-RAT wireless network [4]	✓	✓	✓	✗
A model-free AI-enabled approach, presented in this work, for making the data offloading decision in a multi-RAT wireless network	✓	✓	✓	✓