Joint Altitude, Beamwidth, Location, and Bandwidth Optimization for UAV-Enabled Communications

This letter investigates an uplink power control problem for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)-assisted wireless communications. We jointly optimize the UAV's flying altitude, antenna beamwidth, UAV's location, and ground terminals' allocated bandwidth, and transmit power to minimize th...

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Published inIEEE communications letters Vol. 22; no. 8; pp. 1716 - 1719
Main Authors Zhaohui Yang, Cunhua Pan, Shikh-Bahaei, Mohammad, Wei Xu, Ming Chen, Elkashlan, Maged, Nallanathan, Arumugam
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York IEEE 01.08.2018
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Altitude
altitude optimization
Bandwidth
bandwidth allocation
Bandwidths
beamwidth optimization
Channel allocation
Energy conservation
Iterative algorithms
Iterative methods
Linear programming
location placement
Network switching
Optimization
Power control
UAV communications
Unmanned aerial vehicles
Uplink
Wireless communication
Wireless communications
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Summary:This letter investigates an uplink power control problem for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)-assisted wireless communications. We jointly optimize the UAV's flying altitude, antenna beamwidth, UAV's location, and ground terminals' allocated bandwidth, and transmit power to minimize the sum uplink power subject to the minimal rate demand. An iterative algorithm is proposed with low complexity to obtain a suboptimal solution. Numerical results show that the proposed algorithm can achieve good performance in terms of uplink sum power saving.
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ISSN:1089-7798
1558-2558
DOI:10.1109/LCOMM.2018.2846241