Using drone base stations (drone-BSs) in wireless networks has started attracting attention. Drone-BSs can assist the ground BSs in both capacity and coverage enhancement. One of the important problems about integrating drone-BSs to cellular networks is the management of their placement to satisfy the dynamic system requirements. In this paper, we propose a method to find the positions of drone-BSs in an area with different user densities using a heuristic algorithm. The goal is to find the minimum number of drone-BSs and their 3D placement so that all the users are served. Our simulation results show that the proposed approach can satisfy the quality-of-service requirements of the network. 978-1-5090-1701-0/16/$31.00 ©2016 IEEE
In REF , the authors find the minimum number of drone-BSs and their 3D placement to cover a number of users with high data rate requirement through a heuristic algorithm.
On the Number and 3D Placement of Drone Base Stations in Wireless Cellular Networks
2016 IEEE 84th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall)
2016 IEEE 84th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall)
Computer Science