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Beyond Gaussian Assumptions: A General Fractional HJB Control Framework for Lévy-Driven Heavy-Tailed Channels in 6G

  • Mengqi Li
  • , Lixin Li
  • , Wensheng Lin
  • , Zhu Han
  • , Tamer Başar
  • Northwestern Polytechnical University Xian
  • University of Houston
  • Kyung Hee University
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Abstract

Emerging 6G wireless systems suffer severe performance degradation in challenging environments like high-speed trains traversing dense urban corridors and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) links over mountainous terrain. These scenarios exhibit non-Gaussian, non-stationary channels with heavy-tailed fading and abrupt signal fluctuations. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a novel wireless channel model based on symmetric \alpha -stable Lévy processes, thereby enabling continuous-time state-space characterization of both long-term and short-term fading. Building on this model, a generalized optimal control framework is developed via a fractional Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation that incorporates the Riesz fractional operator to capture non-local spatial effects and memory-dependent dynamics. The existence and uniqueness of viscosity solutions to the fractional HJB equation are rigorously established, thus ensuring the theoretical validity of the proposed control formulation. Numerical simulations conducted in a multi-cell, multi-user downlink setting demonstrate the effectiveness of the fractional HJB-based strategy in optimizing transmission power under heavy-tailed co-channel and multi-user interference.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)7535-7550
Number of pages16
JournalIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Volume25
DOIs
StatePublished - 2026

Keywords

  • Non-Gaussian channel
  • fractional Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman
  • symmetric α-stable Lévy processes
  • the Perron’s method
  • the Riesz fractional operator
  • viscosity solutions

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