Digital Twin-Assisted Task Offloading and Resource Allocation in ISAC-Enabled Internet of Vehicles

TL;DR

This paper proposes a digital twin-assisted framework for task offloading and resource allocation in ISAC-enabled IoV networks, optimizing long-term system cost while ensuring stability in highly dynamic environments.

Contribution

It introduces a novel Lyapunov-driven DT-enhanced multi-agent policy optimization algorithm for efficient resource management in IoV networks.

Findings

Ly-DTMPPO outperforms existing benchmarks in simulations.

The InstrT mode improves spectral efficiency and reduces data volume.

The approach ensures long-term queue stability and cost minimization.

Abstract

The convergence of the Internet of vehicles (IoV) and 6G networks is driving the evolution of next-generation intelligent transportation systems. However, IoV networks face persistent challenges, including low spectral efficiency in vehicular communications, difficulty in achieving dynamic and adaptive resource optimization, and the need for long-term stability under highly dynamic environments. In this paper, we study the problem of digital twin (DT)-assisted task offloading and resource allocation in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC)-enabled IoV networks. The objective is to minimize the long-term average system cost, defined as a weighted combination of delay and energy consumption, while ensuring queue stability over time. To address this, we employ an ISAC-enabled design and introduce two transmission modes (i.e., raw data transmission (DataT) and instruction transmission (InstrT)). The InstrT mode enables instruction-level transmission, thereby reducing data volume and improving spectral efficiency. We then employ Lyapunov optimization to decompose the long-term stochastic problem into per-slot deterministic problems, ensuring long-term queue stability. Building upon this, we propose a Lyapunov-driven DT-enhanced multi-agent proximal policy optimization (Ly-DTMPPO) algorithm, which leverages DT for global state awareness and intelligent decision-making within a centralized training and decentralized execution (CTDE) architecture. Extensive simulations verify that Ly-DTMPPO achieves superior performance compared with existing benchmarks.