Maximizing indoor wireless coverage using UAVs equipped with directional antennas

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

7-2-2017

Abstract

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used to provide wireless coverage during emergency cases where each UAV serves as an aerial wireless base station when the cellular network goes down. They can also be used to supplement the ground base station in order to provide better coverage and higher data rates for the users. In this paper, we aim to maximize the indoor wireless coverage using UAVs equipped with directional antennas. We study the case that the UAVs are using one channel, thus in order to maximize the total indoor wireless coverage, we avoid any overlapping in their coverage volumes. We present two methods to place the UAVs; providing wireless coverage from one building side and from two building sides. Our results show that the upside-down arrangements of UAVs, can improve the maximum total coverage by 100% compared to providing wireless coverage from one building side when the UAVs use one channel. In order to provide full wireless coverage, we use UAVs with multiple channels and show that the upside-down arrangements of UAVs required 20%-33% fewer number of UAVs.

Identifier

85050643109 (Scopus)

ISBN

[9781538631324]

Publication Title

2017 IEEE 13th Malaysia International Conference on Communications Micc 2017

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/MICC.2017.8311754

First Page

175

Last Page

180

Volume

2017-November

Grant

CNS-1647170

Fund Ref

National Science Foundation

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