Reinforcement Learning Scheduling for URLLC Service Protection in Industry 4.0 Scenario

In this work, we study the inter- and intra-slice scheduling of the Industry 4.0 scenario considering three services available: enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC), and Massive Machine Type Communication (mMTC). In this context, we proposed inter-slice scheduling with Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC) service protection using the reinforcement learning agent. In our results, to get closer to a practical Industry 4.0 scenario, we utilized channel measurements of an actual factory hall in Nuremberg, Germany. The superiority of the proposed framework is demonstrated through numerical simulations compared with reference solutions.