UAV-enabled reliable mobile relaying under the time-varying Rician fading channel

This paper adopts an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) relay to forward data from a source sensor to a remote base station (BS). To ensure reliable data transmission, our objective is to minimize the average outage probability along the three-dimensional (3D) UAV trajectory under the UAV mobility and so...

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Main Authors: Lei Wang, Baozhu Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-02-01
Series:Alexandria Engineering Journal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110016822007074
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description This paper adopts an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) relay to forward data from a source sensor to a remote base station (BS). To ensure reliable data transmission, our objective is to minimize the average outage probability along the three-dimensional (3D) UAV trajectory under the UAV mobility and source/relay power allocation constraints. The UAV mobility causes the time-varying Rician fading channel, thus the outage probability function considers both the distance-based large-scale fading and a time-varying Rician factor. To tackle our formulated non-convex problem, we approximate the outage probability by its first-order asymptotic form, based on which we propose a block coordinate descent (BCD) iteration algorithm by alternatively solving the 3D UAV trajectory and power allocation subproblems. The successive convex optimization (SCO) method is applied to deal with the 3D UAV trajectory subproblem. To reveal the advantage by designing the 3D UAV trajectory, we also consider joint optimization of the two-dimensional (2D) UAV trajectory and power allocation to minimize the average outage probability. Extensive simulations verify the accuracy of the approximate outage probability, and the results show that considering the time-varying Rician fading channel, the 3D UAV trajectory helps to obtain a lower link outage probability than the 2D UAV trajectory.
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spelling doaj.art-9fe2a35b3ad14a409c88d7c04c949ff62023-01-05T06:46:36ZengElsevierAlexandria Engineering Journal1110-01682023-02-0164771783UAV-enabled reliable mobile relaying under the time-varying Rician fading channelLei Wang0Baozhu Li1State Key Lab of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, ChinaInternet of Things & Smart City Innovation Platform, Zhuhai Fudan Innovation Institute, Zhuhai 519031, China; Corresponding author.This paper adopts an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) relay to forward data from a source sensor to a remote base station (BS). To ensure reliable data transmission, our objective is to minimize the average outage probability along the three-dimensional (3D) UAV trajectory under the UAV mobility and source/relay power allocation constraints. The UAV mobility causes the time-varying Rician fading channel, thus the outage probability function considers both the distance-based large-scale fading and a time-varying Rician factor. To tackle our formulated non-convex problem, we approximate the outage probability by its first-order asymptotic form, based on which we propose a block coordinate descent (BCD) iteration algorithm by alternatively solving the 3D UAV trajectory and power allocation subproblems. The successive convex optimization (SCO) method is applied to deal with the 3D UAV trajectory subproblem. To reveal the advantage by designing the 3D UAV trajectory, we also consider joint optimization of the two-dimensional (2D) UAV trajectory and power allocation to minimize the average outage probability. Extensive simulations verify the accuracy of the approximate outage probability, and the results show that considering the time-varying Rician fading channel, the 3D UAV trajectory helps to obtain a lower link outage probability than the 2D UAV trajectory.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110016822007074Mobile relayingOutage probabilityTime-varying channelRician fading3D UAV trajectory
spellingShingle Lei Wang
Baozhu Li
UAV-enabled reliable mobile relaying under the time-varying Rician fading channel
Alexandria Engineering Journal
Mobile relaying
Outage probability
Time-varying channel
Rician fading
3D UAV trajectory
title UAV-enabled reliable mobile relaying under the time-varying Rician fading channel
title_full UAV-enabled reliable mobile relaying under the time-varying Rician fading channel
title_fullStr UAV-enabled reliable mobile relaying under the time-varying Rician fading channel
title_full_unstemmed UAV-enabled reliable mobile relaying under the time-varying Rician fading channel
title_short UAV-enabled reliable mobile relaying under the time-varying Rician fading channel
title_sort uav enabled reliable mobile relaying under the time varying rician fading channel
topic Mobile relaying
Outage probability
Time-varying channel
Rician fading
3D UAV trajectory
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110016822007074
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