In Intelligent Transportation System(ITS), real-time traffic video can be used to assist Connected Autonomous Vehicles(CAVs) to make more sensible decisions. However, due to the limitation of locations and qualities of the onboard sensors, CAVs cannot observe the full traffic situations. In addition, when vehicle users subscribe to the same video content simultaneously, traditional unicast transmission mode is spectrum inefficient, especially for the traffic congestion scenario. In order to solve these problems, in this paper, we propose a traffic video multicasting scheme based on Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) and Scalable Video Coding(SVC) for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV) enabled ITS. We aim to maximize the long-term video quality received by vehicles by jointly optimizing the vehicle grouping and power allocation strategies. We model the problem as a Markov Decision Process (MDP) and leverage Soft Actor-Critic(SAC) algorithm to solve the MDP. Extensive simulation results indicate that the proposed algorithm has a strong exploration ability, and outperforms the traditional Actor-Critic (AC) algorithm in terms of the reward performance.
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