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Trajectory Optimization for Multiple UAVs Acting as Wireless Relays
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (2018, Kansas City, MO)
  • Ahmad Alsharoa, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Hakim Ghazzai
  • Murat Yuksel
  • Abdullah Kadri
  • Ahmed E. Kamal
Abstract

This paper proposes a novel wireless relay selection scheme involving multiple mobile Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to support communicating ground users. The goal is to optimize the transmit power levels and trajectories of the relaying UAVs in order to maximize the data rate transmission of the ground users which are suffering from the absence of direct link. Assuming that each UAV is initially characterized by a predefined trajectory for a primary task, we propose to modify it whenever it is needed and the energy and trajectory boundaries constraints allow. We propose to solve this problem using an iterative two steps solution; first, a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) problem is formulated to optimally determine the users- UAVs associations and the UAVs' corresponding transmit power levels. In the second step, an efficient algorithm based on a recursive shrink-and-realign process is proposed to optimize the UAV trajectories. The performance of the proposed method shows advantages in terms of average throughput compared to the predefined trajectories solution.

Meeting Name
2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2018 (2018: May 20-24, Kansas City, MO)
Department(s)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Keywords and Phrases
  • Iterative methods,
  • Mobile antennas,
  • Trajectories,
  • Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), Average throughput,
  • Data rate transmission,
  • Mixed integer linear programming (MILP),
  • Mobile unmanned aerial vehicles,
  • Multiple UAVs,
  • Trajectory optimization,
  • Transmit power,
  • Wireless relays, Integer programming
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
978-153864328-0
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2018 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
5-1-2018
Publication Date
01 May 2018
Citation Information
Ahmad Alsharoa, Hakim Ghazzai, Murat Yuksel, Abdullah Kadri, et al.. "Trajectory Optimization for Multiple UAVs Acting as Wireless Relays" Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (2018, Kansas City, MO) (2018) p. 1 - 6 ISSN: 2474-9133
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ahmad-alsharoa/31/