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Spatial and Temporal Management of Cellular HetNets with Multiple Solar Powered Drones
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  • Ahmad Alsharoa, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Hakim Ghazzai
  • Abdullah Kadri
  • Ahmed E. Kamal
Abstract

This paper proposes an energy management framework for cellular heterogeneous networks (HetNets) supported by dynamic solar powered drones. A HetNet composed of a macrocell base station (BS), micro cell BSs, and drone small cell BSs are deployed to serve the networks' subscribers. The drones can land at pre-planned locations defined by the mobile operator and at the macrocell BS site where they can charge their batteries. The objective of the framework is to jointly determine the optimal trips of the drones and the MBSs that can be safely turned off in order to minimize the total energy consumption of the network. This is done while considering the cells' capacities and the minimum receiving power guaranteeing successful communications. To do so, an integer linear programming problem is formulated and optimally solved for three cases based on the knowledge level about future renewable energy statistics of the drones. A low complex relaxed solution is also developed. Its performances are shown to be close to those of the optimal solutions. However, the gap increases as the network becomes more congested. Numerical results investigate the performance of the proposed drone-based approach and show notable improvements in terms of energy saving and network capacity.

Department(s)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Keywords and Phrases
  • Drone-Based Communications,
  • Dynamic Drone Small Cells,
  • Energy Harvesting,
  • Energy Management,
  • Heterogeneous Networks
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2020 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
4-1-2020
Publication Date
01 Apr 2020
Citation Information
Ahmad Alsharoa, Hakim Ghazzai, Abdullah Kadri and Ahmed E. Kamal. "Spatial and Temporal Management of Cellular HetNets with Multiple Solar Powered Drones" IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing Vol. 19 Iss. 4 (2020) p. 954 - 968 ISSN: 1536-1233
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ahmad-alsharoa/41/