Spatial Configuration of Agile Wireless Networks With Drone-BSs and User-in-the-loop

作     者：Bor-Yaliniz, Irem El-Keyi, Amr Yanikomeroglu, Halim 

作者机构：Carleton Univ Dept Syst & Comp Engn Ottawa ON K1S 5B6 Canada 

出 版 物：《IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS》 (IEEE 无线通信汇刊)

年 卷 期：2019年第18卷第2期

页      面：753-768页

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学科分类：0810[工学-信息与通信工程] 0808[工学-电气工程] 08[工学] 

基　　金：Huawei Canada Co., Ltd Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada's (NSERC) Strategic Partnership Grants for Projects (SPGP) Program 

主　　题：Unmanned aerial vehicle user-in-the-loop agile network drone-BS 

摘      要：Agile networking can reduce over-engineering, costs, and energy waste. Toward that end, it is vital to exploit all degrees of freedom of wireless networks efficiently, so that the service quality is not sacrificed. In order to reap the benefits of flexible networking, we propose a spatial network configuration (SNC) scheme, which can result in efficient networking;both from the perspective of network capacity and profitability. First, the SNC utilizes the drone-base-stations (drone-BSs) to configure access points. Drone-BSs are shifting paradigms of heterogeneous wireless networks by providing radically flexible deployment opportunities. On the other hand, their limited endurance and potential high cost increase the importance of utilizing drone-BSs efficiently. Therefore, second, user mobility is exploited via user-in-the-loop (UIL), which aims at influencing users mobility by offering incentives. The proposed uncoordinated SNC is a computationally efficient method, yet, it may be insufficient to exploit the synergy between the drone-BSs and UIL. Hence, we propose a joint SNC, which increases the performance gain along with the computational cost. Finally, the semi-joint SNC combines the benefits of the joint SNC with computational efficiency. The numerical results show that the semi-joint SNC is two orders of magnitude faster than the joint SNC, and a profit of more than 15% can be obtained compared to conventional systems.