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14 - UAV-Based Ultra-dense Networks

from Part III - Resource Allocation and Network Management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2020

Haijun Zhang
Affiliation:
University of Science and Technology Beijing
Jemin Lee
Affiliation:
Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Tony Q. S. Quek
Affiliation:
Singapore University of Technology and Design
Chih-Lin I
Affiliation:
China Mobile Research Institute
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Summary

Recently, with the development and popularization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), researches on UAVs have also been attracted increasing attention in wireless communications. By fully exploiting their potentials, leveraging UAVs to assist UDNs can greatly improve the system performance. The probability of having line-of-sight transmissions is higher than the probability in the terrestrial transmissions. Moreover, their attitudes can be freely adjusted. This chapter presents a vision of UAV based UDNs to exploit the potential merits of UAVs in UDNs. The channel characteristics are first discussed. Followed that, the representative scenarios where aerial UAVs are introduced to enhance terrestrial UDNs are investigated in detail, i.e., UAV-enabled BSs, UAV-enabled relays, and UAV-enabled energy transfer. UAV based UDNs also face many challenges, such as the limited spectrum resource and on-board energy. From the spectrum sharing perspective, this chapter also discusses the robust spectrum sharing optimization between UAV communications and terrestrial communications, where the scenarios with abnormal behaviors and uncertain/incomplete information are considered.

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Ultra-dense Networks
Principles and Applications
, pp. 259 - 276
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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