TY - JOUR
T1 - Cooperation Techniques for a Cellular Internet of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
AU - Zhang, Hongliang
AU - Song, Lingyang
AU - Han, Zhu
AU - Poor, H. Vincent
N1 - Funding Information:
AcKnoWledgments This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant number 61625101; in part by U.S. AFOSR under MURI Grant 18RT0073; and in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grants CNS-1717454, CNS-1731424, CNS-1702850, CNS-1646607, CCF-0939370, and CCF-1513915.
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PY - 2019/10
Y1 - 2019/10
N2 - UAVs are powerful Internet-of-Things components to provide sensing and communications in the air due to their advantages in mobility and flexibility. As aerial users, UAVs are envisioned to support various sensing applications in the next generation cellular systems, which have been studied by the 3GPP. However, the QoS of the cellular link between the UAV and the base station may not be guaranteed when UAVs are at the cell edge or experiencing deep fading. In this article, we first introduce the non-cooperative cellular Internet of UAVs. Then we propose a cooperative sense-andsend protocol, in which a UAV can upload sensory data with the help of a UAV relay, to provide a better communication QoS for the sensing tasks. Key techniques including trajectory design and radio resource management that support the cooperative cellular Internet of UAVs are presented in detail. Finally, the extended cooperative cellular Internet of UAVs is discussed for QoS improvement with some open issues, such as massive multiple- input multiple-output system.
AB - UAVs are powerful Internet-of-Things components to provide sensing and communications in the air due to their advantages in mobility and flexibility. As aerial users, UAVs are envisioned to support various sensing applications in the next generation cellular systems, which have been studied by the 3GPP. However, the QoS of the cellular link between the UAV and the base station may not be guaranteed when UAVs are at the cell edge or experiencing deep fading. In this article, we first introduce the non-cooperative cellular Internet of UAVs. Then we propose a cooperative sense-andsend protocol, in which a UAV can upload sensory data with the help of a UAV relay, to provide a better communication QoS for the sensing tasks. Key techniques including trajectory design and radio resource management that support the cooperative cellular Internet of UAVs are presented in detail. Finally, the extended cooperative cellular Internet of UAVs is discussed for QoS improvement with some open issues, such as massive multiple- input multiple-output system.
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U2 - 10.1109/MWC.2019.1800591
DO - 10.1109/MWC.2019.1800591
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85074448204
SN - 1536-1284
VL - 26
SP - 167
EP - 173
JO - IEEE Wireless Communications
JF - IEEE Wireless Communications
IS - 5
M1 - 8839972
ER -