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A Deployment Method Based on Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for UAV-Mounted Base Stations

  • Chen Zhang
  • , Leyi Zhang
  • , Yanming Liu
  • , Lipeng Zhu
  • , Zhenyu Xiao*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

With high mobility and low cost, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used in wireless communication systems. Especially in emergencies, UAVs can be used as aerial base stations (BSs) to provide wireless communication services for ground users. Aiming to reduce cost, we prefer to minimizing the number of UAVs needed to serve all users. Compared with the existing works, we take the constraints of required quality of service (QoS) and the service ability of each UAV into consideration. To solve the formulated mixed-integer programming problem, we propose a three-step method. First, to ensure each UAV can serve more users, the maximum service radius of UAVs is derived according to users’ QoS requirement. Second, we propose an artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm based clustering method to cluster users into different groups in the horizontal direction. Third, we adjust the positions of UAVs to obtained a better communication performance of the wireless communication system. Finally, the simulation results are presented to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIoT as a Service - 6th EAI International Conference, IoTaaS 2020, Proceedings
EditorsBo Li, Changle Li, Mao Yang, Zhongjiang Yan, Jie Zheng
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages143-155
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783030675134
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event6th EAI International Conference on IoT as a Service, IoTaaS 2020 - Xi'an, China
Duration: 19 Nov 202020 Nov 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST
Volume346
ISSN (Print)1867-8211
ISSN (Electronic)1867-822X

Conference

Conference6th EAI International Conference on IoT as a Service, IoTaaS 2020
Country/TerritoryChina
CityXi'an
Period19/11/2020/11/20

Keywords

  • Aerial base stations
  • Three-dimensional deployment
  • Unmanned aerial vehicles
  • Wireless communication

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