Place, Slice and Schedule: Hierarchical O-RAN Control of a Tethered mmWave UAV-gNB

arXiv:2608.23824 · cs.NI, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-08-24 · Read on arXiv

cs.NI, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-08-24

Updated: 2026-08-24

Comments: This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Actor — 13× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 7× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Deep Reinforcement Learning — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Q-learning — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Soft Actor-Critic — 4× in this paper
• RAN Intelligent Controller — 3× in this paper
• Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Graph Construction — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Key Performance Indicator — 2× in this paper
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Closed-Loop Optimization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Digital Twin — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference — 1× in this paper
• Media Access Control — 1× in this paper
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication — 1× in this paper
• World Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

Sources

• Coverage analysis of Tethered UAV-assisted Large Scale Cellular Networks
• Telecom World Models: Unifying Digital Twins, Foundation Models, and Predictive Planning for 6G
• 3D Placement and Orientation of mmWave-based UAVs for Guaranteed LoS Coverage
• Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Placement for Integrated Access Backhauling in UAV-Assisted Wireless Networks
• CollabORAN: A Collaborative rApp-xApp-dApp Control Architecture for Fairness-Adaptive Resource Sharing in O-RAN

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