TY - JOUR
T1 - Distributed Learning for Resilient LEO Satellite Access under Adversarial Jamming
AU - Ma, Jianfeng
AU - Liu, Dong
AU - Bai, Lin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2026
Y1 - 2026
N2 - Low-Earth-orbit (LEO) mega-constellations are expected to support ubiquitous connectivity, yet resilient access remains challenging under satellite mobility, adversarial jamming, and limited onboard resources. This paper investigates user association and scheduling in LEO networks under adversarial jamming, while accounting for link activation cost, finite radio frequency chains, and long-term queue stability requirements. We propose a decentralized online learning framework, termed Lyapunov-guided variance-aware multi-armed bandit (LV-MAB). Specifically, Lyapunov drift analysis converts the long-term queue stability requirement into a per-frame queue-weighted surrogate problem, which enables distributed user-side association and satellite-side scheduling. For user association, LV-MAB uses a variance-aware upper confidence bound method with link-level sliding windows and resets to track non-stationary rate statistics induced by mobility and dynamic jamming. For satellite-side scheduling, combinatorial Thompson sampling with posterior inflation is adopted to resolve contention among requesting users under radio frequency chain constraints. We establish dynamic regret bounds for LV-MAB and prove system queue stability. Extensive simulations show that LV-MAB achieves reliable throughput, backlog control, fairness improvement, and robustness under dynamic adversarial jamming.
AB - Low-Earth-orbit (LEO) mega-constellations are expected to support ubiquitous connectivity, yet resilient access remains challenging under satellite mobility, adversarial jamming, and limited onboard resources. This paper investigates user association and scheduling in LEO networks under adversarial jamming, while accounting for link activation cost, finite radio frequency chains, and long-term queue stability requirements. We propose a decentralized online learning framework, termed Lyapunov-guided variance-aware multi-armed bandit (LV-MAB). Specifically, Lyapunov drift analysis converts the long-term queue stability requirement into a per-frame queue-weighted surrogate problem, which enables distributed user-side association and satellite-side scheduling. For user association, LV-MAB uses a variance-aware upper confidence bound method with link-level sliding windows and resets to track non-stationary rate statistics induced by mobility and dynamic jamming. For satellite-side scheduling, combinatorial Thompson sampling with posterior inflation is adopted to resolve contention among requesting users under radio frequency chain constraints. We establish dynamic regret bounds for LV-MAB and prove system queue stability. Extensive simulations show that LV-MAB achieves reliable throughput, backlog control, fairness improvement, and robustness under dynamic adversarial jamming.
KW - LEO mega-constellations
KW - Lyapunov optimization
KW - agentic AI
KW - anti-jamming
KW - multi-armed bandit
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105050218646
U2 - 10.1109/TCCN.2026.3729981
DO - 10.1109/TCCN.2026.3729981
M3 - 文章
AN - SCOPUS:105050218646
SN - 2332-7731
VL - 12
SP - 12035
EP - 12050
JO - IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking
JF - IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking
ER -