Qin, Yujie and Kishk, Mustafa A. and Alouini, Mohamed-Slim (2020) Performance Evaluation of UAV-Enabled Cellular Networks With Battery-Limited Drones. IEEE Communications Letters, 24 (12). pp. 2664-2668. ISSN 1089-7798

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Abstract

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as flying base stations (BSs) to offload Macro-BSs in hotspots. However, due to the limited battery on-board, UAVs can typically stay in operation for less than 1.5 hours. Afterward, the UAV has to fly back to a dedicated charging station that recharges/replaces the UAV’s battery. In this letter, we study the performance of a UAV-enabled cellular network while capturing the influence of the spatial distribution of the charging stations. In particular, we use tools from stochastic geometry to derive the coverage probability of a UAV-enabled cellular network as a function of the battery size, the density of the charging stations, and the time required for recharging/replacing the battery.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Stochastic geometry; Poisson point process; drone; availability probability; coverage probability;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Electronic Engineering Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > Hamilton Institute
Item ID:	16997
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2020.3013286
Depositing User:	Mustafa Kishk
Date Deposited:	06 Mar 2023 16:04
Journal or Publication Title:	IEEE Communications Letters
Publisher:	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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