The COVID-19 outburst has encouraged the adoption of Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) network to empower the antiquated healthcare system and alleviate the health care costs. To realise the functionalities of the IoMT network, 5G heterogeneous networks emerged as an exemplary connectivity solution as it facilitates diversified service provisioning in the service delivery model at more convenient care. However, the crucial challenge for 5G heterogeneous wireless connectivity solution is to facilitate agile differentiated service provisioning. Lately, considerable research endeavour has been noted in this direction but multiservice consideration and battery optimisation have not been addressed. Motivated by the gaps in the existing literature, an intelligent radio access technology selection approach has been proposed to ensure Quality of Service provisioning in a multiservice scenario on the premise of battery optimisation. In particular, the proposed approach leverages the concept of Double Deep Reinforcement Learning to attain an optimal network selection policy. Eventually, the proposed approach corroborated by the rigorous simulations demonstrated a substantial improvement in the overall system utility. Subsequently, the performance evaluation underlines the efficacy of the proposed scheme in terms of convergence and complexity.
Keywords: 5G; Double deep reinforcement learning; Edge computing; IoMT; Software-defined wireless networking.
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