UAV-Aided Information and Energy Transmissions for Cognitive and Sustainable 5G Networks

• Published in: IEEE transactions on wireless communications Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 1668 - 1683
• Main Authors: Che, Yueling, Lai, Yabin, Luo, Sheng, Wu, Kaishun, Duan, Lingjie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.03.2021; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: 5G mobile communication; Batteries; Cognitive radio; cognitive radio (CR); Communication system security; Constraints; Energy harvesting; Energy transfer; Energy transmission; Idling; Information transfer; Markov decision process (MDP); Markov processes; Optimization; Policies; Power management; Resource management; Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided communications; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Vehicle dynamics; Wireless communication; wireless energy transfer (WET); wireless information transfer (WIT); Wireless networks

To develop sustainable fifth generation (5G) wireless networks and utilize the unused spectrum, this paper focuses on cognitive radio (CR) based wireless information and energy transmissions from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to multiple low-power ground terminals (GTs). By practically considerin...