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Multiple UAVs Enabled Data Offloading for Cellular Hotspots

  • Southeast University, Nanjing
  • Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen

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Abstract

This paper proposes a new hybrid architecture by using multiple unmanned aerial vehicles enabled aerial base stations (ABSs) to offload data traffic for a single overloaded ground base station (GBS). We consider two practical spectrum sharing strategies, i.e., orthogonal spectrum sharing and nonorthogonal spectrum reusing between GBS and ABSs. For the non-orthogonal spectrum reusing case, we aim to maximize the minimum throughput for cell-edge ground users (GUs) by jointly optimizing the coverage radius of ABSs, and the number of ABSs. For the orthogonal spectrum sharing case, we have also optimized an additional variable, i.e., bandwidth allocation ratio. Numerical results indicate that the orthogonal spectrum sharing strategy outperforms the non-orthogonal spectrum reusing strategy and the conventional GBS-only case, thus provides an attractive solution to offload data traffic for a temporary cellular hotspot.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781538676462
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event2019 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2019 - Marrakesh, Morocco
Duration: 15 Apr 201919 Apr 2019

Publication series

NameIEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC
Volume2019-April
ISSN (Electronic)1558-2612

Conference

Conference2019 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2019
Country/TerritoryMorocco
CityMarrakesh
Period15/04/1919/04/19

Keywords

  • UAV
  • aerial base station
  • data offloading
  • spectrum reusing
  • spectrum sharing
  • user association

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