Research Article
Efficient Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Assisted D2D Communication Networks
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-67720-6_50, author={Wenson Chang and Kuang-Chieh Liu and Zhao-Ting Meng and Li-Chun Wang}, title={Efficient Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Assisted D2D Communication Networks}, proceedings={Communications and Networking. 15th EAI International Conference, ChinaCom 2020, Shanghai, China, November 20-21, 2020, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={CHINACOM}, year={2021}, month={2}, keywords={UAV-assisted network Fiedler value D2D communications 3D network Laplacian matrix}, doi={10.1007/978-3-030-67720-6_50} }- Wenson Chang
Kuang-Chieh Liu
Zhao-Ting Meng
Li-Chun Wang
Year: 2021
Efficient Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Assisted D2D Communication Networks
CHINACOM
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-67720-6_50
Abstract
Nowadays, mounting a base-station (BS) onto an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has become a new dimension for constructing the new generation of wireless communication networks. For example, dynamically constructing an UAV-BS network can provide some instantaneous and emergent communication services when the infrastructure of the cellular network is destroyed owing to some devastating disasters. In this paper, we aim to deploy a scalable and self-organized UAV-assisted device-to-device (D2D) communication network using a minimum number of UAV-BSs (UBSs) under some link quality constraints. Specifically, a sequential UBS deploying algorithm is designed to guarantee the signal quality for the links between the UBSs and ground terminals, and those between UBSs and central controller. Via the simulation results, it is interesting to find that how to deploy a proper number of UBSs rather than constructing a highly connected UBS network is the key to guarantee higher spectrum efficiency for the UBS-assisted D2D networks.
