Efficient 3D placement of a UAV using particle swarm optimization

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

5-8-2017

Abstract

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when cellular networks go down. Prior studies on UAV-based wireless coverage typically consider an Air-To-Ground path loss model, which assumes that the users are outdoor and they are located on a 2D plane. In this paper, we propose using a single UAV to provide wireless coverage for indoor users inside a high-rise building under disaster situations (such as earthquakes or floods), when cellular networks are down. We assume that the locations of indoor users are uniformly distributed in each floor and we propose a particle swarm optimization algorithm to find an efficient 3D placement of a UAV that minimizes the total transmit power required to cover the indoor users.

Identifier

85020170998 (Scopus)

ISBN

[9781509042432]

Publication Title

2017 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems Icics 2017

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/IACS.2017.7921981

First Page

258

Last Page

263

Grant

CNS-1647170

Fund Ref

National Science Foundation

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