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Multiple UAV-Assisted Cooperative DF Relaying in Multi-User Massive MIMO IoT Systems

Information Theory 2024-04-05 v1 Signal Processing math.IT

Abstract

This work considers a multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MU-mMIMO) Internet-of-Things (IoT) system, where multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating as decode-and-forward (DF) relays connect the base station (BS) to a large number of IoT devices. To maximize the total achievable rate, we propose a novel joint optimization problem of hybrid beamforming (HBF), multiple UAV relay positioning, and power allocation (PA) to multiple IoT users. The study adopts a geometry-based millimeter-wave (mmWave) channel model for both links and utilizes sequential optimization based on K-means UAV-user association. The radio frequency (RF) stages are designed based on the slow time-varying angular information, while the baseband (BB) stages are designed utilizing the reduced-dimension effective channel matrices. The illustrative results show that multiple UAV-assisted cooperative relaying systems outperform a single UAV system in practical user distributions. Moreover, compared to fixed positions and equal PA of UAVs and BS, the joint optimization of UAV location and PA substantially enhances the total achievable rate.

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@article{arxiv.2404.03068,
  title  = {Multiple UAV-Assisted Cooperative DF Relaying in Multi-User Massive MIMO IoT Systems},
  author = {Mobeen Mahmood and Yicheng Yuan and Tho Le-Ngoc},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.03068},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

This paper has been accepted for publication in IEEE ICC 2024. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2309.11748

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