TY - JOUR
T1 - Range-based reactive deployment of autonomous drones for optimal coverage in disaster areas
AU - Savkin, Andrey V.
AU - Huang, Hailong
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received July 20, 2019; accepted September 23, 2019. Date of publication October 9, 2019; date of current version June 16, 2021. This work was supported by the Australian Research Council. This article was recommended by Associate Editor Z. Liu. (Corresponding author: Hailong Huang.) The authors are with the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia (e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 IEEE.
PY - 2021/7
Y1 - 2021/7
N2 - This article studies deploying autonomous drones to provide Internet service to affected users in disaster areas. Specifically, the problem of minimizing the average drone-user distance is considered. Unlike some existing location-based approaches, a range-based reactive drone deployment algorithm is proposed. Instead of assuming that the users' locations are known, the proposed algorithm only requires the drones to measure the received signal strength and to share such information with other nearby drones. It is decentralized and easily implementable in real time. The algorithm's convergence is proved and its performance is validated by simulations and comparisons with a benchmark scheme.
AB - This article studies deploying autonomous drones to provide Internet service to affected users in disaster areas. Specifically, the problem of minimizing the average drone-user distance is considered. Unlike some existing location-based approaches, a range-based reactive drone deployment algorithm is proposed. Instead of assuming that the users' locations are known, the proposed algorithm only requires the drones to measure the received signal strength and to share such information with other nearby drones. It is decentralized and easily implementable in real time. The algorithm's convergence is proved and its performance is validated by simulations and comparisons with a benchmark scheme.
KW - Autonomous drones
KW - cellular networks
KW - coverage
KW - flying base stations
KW - reactive deployment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85109793514&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/TSMC.2019.2944010
DO - 10.1109/TSMC.2019.2944010
M3 - Journal article
SN - 2168-2216
VL - 51
SP - 4606
EP - 4610
JO - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
JF - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
IS - 7
M1 - 8863630
ER -