TY - GEN
T1 - Optimal positioning of communication relay unmanned aerial vehicles in urban environments
AU - Ladosz, Pawel
AU - Oh, Hyondong
AU - Chen, Wen Hua
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/6/30
Y1 - 2016/6/30
N2 - This paper proposes a method of finding the optimal position of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) functioning as a communication relay node to improve the network connectivity and communication performance of a team of ground nodes/vehicles. A three-dimensional complex urban environment containing many buildings is considered where the line-of-sight between ground nodes is often blocked. The particle swarm optimisation is used to find the optimal UAV position using three different communication performance metrics depending on the requirement. Numerical simulations are performed to show the advantage of using relay UAVs and the specific metric in sample scenarios. An indoor proof-of-concept experiment is also performed to show the feasibility of the proposed approach in a real time.
AB - This paper proposes a method of finding the optimal position of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) functioning as a communication relay node to improve the network connectivity and communication performance of a team of ground nodes/vehicles. A three-dimensional complex urban environment containing many buildings is considered where the line-of-sight between ground nodes is often blocked. The particle swarm optimisation is used to find the optimal UAV position using three different communication performance metrics depending on the requirement. Numerical simulations are performed to show the advantage of using relay UAVs and the specific metric in sample scenarios. An indoor proof-of-concept experiment is also performed to show the feasibility of the proposed approach in a real time.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84979740919
U2 - 10.1109/ICUAS.2016.7502562
DO - 10.1109/ICUAS.2016.7502562
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:84979740919
T3 - 2016 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2016
SP - 1140
EP - 1147
BT - 2016 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2016 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2016
Y2 - 7 June 2016 through 10 June 2016
ER -