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Zijiang Yan, Hao Zhou, Wael Jaafar, Jianhua Pei, Ping Wang, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Hina Tabassum

This paper presents a Dual-Timescale Hierarchical LLM framework for intelligent multi-UAV navigation and handover management in Integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks (ITNTNs). The approach integrates strategic reasoning from cloud-based LLMs with tactical reflection from edge-LLMs and rapid physical control from DRL, leading to significantly reduced collision rates, higher system throughput, and more stable handover probabilities compared to baseline methods.

Key insights

• Complex autonomous control problems can be effectively addressed by a hierarchical architecture that synergizes slow-timescale strategic reasoning (LLMs) with fast-timescale physical execution (DRL).
• LLMs can provide effective zero-shot cognitive guidance to DRL agents, enhancing learning efficiency and allowing convergence to more optimal solutions by avoiding local minima and adapting priorities dynamically.
• Discretizing continuous sensor data into semantic descriptors and leveraging few-shot in-context learning through prompt engineering enables LLMs to interface effectively with real-time physical system states.

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