Position Optimization for Swarm-based UAV-to-UAV Communication Systems

Mingzhi Xu, Kuan Wu, Jianchao Chen, Xiaojing Huang, Ming Jiang

2022

Abstract

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies have played an important role in the beyond-fifth-generation (B5G) networks. To meet the increasing demand for UAV swarm communications, in this paper we propose an intra-swarm UAV-to-UAV (IaS-U2U) communication mechanism for enabling data services in the so-called out-of-coverage (OOC) scenario, where the conventional terrestrial cellular network infrastructure is not available, for example in the cases of mountains, oceans, deserts and forests. Specifically, an optimization problem is formulated by jointly considering the single-pair transmission rate (STR) and the propulsion power (PP), where the UAVs’ pairing and relative positioning are taken into account. To solve the complicated joint optimization problem, we decompose it into the UAV pairing process and the relative position optimization (RPO) process, where in the latter a successive convex approximation (SCA) based RPO algorithm is proposed. Simulation results show that the new scheme can provide notable gains in terms of energy efficiency (EE) over selected benchmark methods under different conditions.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Xu M., Wu K., Chen J., Huang X. and Jiang M. (2022). Position Optimization for Swarm-based UAV-to-UAV Communication Systems. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, ISBN 978-989-758-592-0, pages 22-32. DOI: 10.5220/0011319900003286

in Bibtex Style

@conference{winsys22,
author={Mingzhi Xu and Kuan Wu and Jianchao Chen and Xiaojing Huang and Ming Jiang},
title={Position Optimization for Swarm-based UAV-to-UAV Communication Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS,},
year={2022},
pages={22-32},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011319900003286},
isbn={978-989-758-592-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS,
TI - Position Optimization for Swarm-based UAV-to-UAV Communication Systems
SN - 978-989-758-592-0
AU - Xu M.
AU - Wu K.
AU - Chen J.
AU - Huang X.
AU - Jiang M.
PY - 2022
SP - 22
EP - 32
DO - 10.5220/0011319900003286