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Joint Configuration of Transmission Direction and Altitude in UAV-based Two-Way Communication

Information Theory 2018-05-23 v1 Systems and Control math.IT

Abstract

When considering unidirectional communication for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as flying Base Stations (BSs), either uplink or downlink, the system is limited through the co-channel interference that takes place over line-of-sight (LoS) links. This paper considers two-way communication and takes advantage of the fact that the interference among the ground devices takes place through non-line-of-sight (NLoS) links. UAVs can be deployed at the high altitudes to have larger coverage, while the two-way communication allows to configure the transmission direction. Using these two levers, we show how the system throughput can be maximized for a given deployment of the ground devices.

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@article{arxiv.1805.08635,
  title  = {Joint Configuration of Transmission Direction and Altitude in UAV-based Two-Way Communication},
  author = {Wenqian Huang and Dong Min Kim and Wenrui Ding and Petar Popovski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.08635},
  year   = {2018}
}

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10 pages, 3 figures, Submitted for publication