Throughput Maximization for UAV-Enabled Wireless Powered Communication Networks

• Published in: IEEE internet of things journal Vol. 6; no. 2; pp. 1690 - 1703
• Main Authors: Xie, Lifeng, Xu, Jie, Zhang, Rui
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 01.04.2019; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Charge transfer; Communication; Communication networks; Convexity; Downlink; Hovering; Optimization; Radio frequency; Resource allocation; Resource management; Throughput; Trajectories; Trajectory; trajectory optimization; unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); Unmanned aerial vehicles; Uplink; Wireless communication; Wireless communications; wireless power transfer (WPT); Wireless power transmission; wireless powered communication network (WPCN); Wireless sensor networks

This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless powered communication network (WPCN), in which a UAV is dispatched as a mobile access point (AP) to serve a set of ground users periodically. The UAV employs the radio frequency (RF) wireless power transfer (WPT) to charge the user...