TY - GEN
T1 - Cellular-Enabled UAV Communication
T2 - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2018
AU - Zhang, Shuowen
AU - Zeng, Yong
AU - Zhang, Rui
PY - 2018/7/27
Y1 - 2018/7/27
N2 - In this paper, we study a cellular-enabled unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication system consisting of one UAV and multiple ground base stations (GBSs). The UAV has a mission of flying from an initial location to a final location, during which it needs to maintain reliable wireless connection with the cellular network by associating with one of the GBSs at each time instant. We aim to minimize the UAV mission completion time by optimizing its trajectory, subject to a quality of connectivity constraint of the GBS-UAV link specified by a minimum received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) target, which needs to be satisfied throughout the mission. This problem is non-convex and difficult to be optimally solved. We first propose an effective approach to check its feasibility based on graph connectivity verification. Then, by examining the GBS-UAV association sequence during the UAV mission, we obtain useful insights on the optimal UAV trajectory, based on which an efficient algorithm is proposed to find an approximate solution to the trajectory optimization problem by leveraging techniques in convex optimization and graph theory. Numerical results show that our proposed trajectory design achieves near-optimal performance.
AB - In this paper, we study a cellular-enabled unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication system consisting of one UAV and multiple ground base stations (GBSs). The UAV has a mission of flying from an initial location to a final location, during which it needs to maintain reliable wireless connection with the cellular network by associating with one of the GBSs at each time instant. We aim to minimize the UAV mission completion time by optimizing its trajectory, subject to a quality of connectivity constraint of the GBS-UAV link specified by a minimum received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) target, which needs to be satisfied throughout the mission. This problem is non-convex and difficult to be optimally solved. We first propose an effective approach to check its feasibility based on graph connectivity verification. Then, by examining the GBS-UAV association sequence during the UAV mission, we obtain useful insights on the optimal UAV trajectory, based on which an efficient algorithm is proposed to find an approximate solution to the trajectory optimization problem by leveraging techniques in convex optimization and graph theory. Numerical results show that our proposed trajectory design achieves near-optimal performance.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85047513675&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICC.2018.8422584
DO - 10.1109/ICC.2018.8422584
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85047513675
SN - 9781538631805
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Communications
BT - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2018 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 20 May 2018 through 24 May 2018
ER -