Throughput Maximization for UAV-Enabled Relaying in Wireless Powered Communication Networks

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 19; no. 13; p. 2989
• Main Authors: Li, Yinfeng, Yang, Dingcheng, Xu, Yu, Xiao, Lin, Chen, Haole
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 06.07.2019; MDPI
• Subjects: Communications networks; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; International conferences; Internet of Things; Optimization; relaying; trajectory optimization; unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); Unmanned aerial vehicles; Wireless communications; Wireless networks; wireless power transfer (WPT); wireless powered communication networks (WPCN); China; wireless power transfer (WPT); unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); trajectory optimization; wireless powered communication networks (WPCN); relaying
• ISSN: 1424-8220; 1424-8220
• DOI: 10.3390/s19132989

This paper investigates mobile relaying in wireless powered communication networks (WPCN), where an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is employed to help information delivery from multiple sources to destination with communication channels severely blocked. The sources are low-power without energy suppl...