English

On the Number and 3D Placement of Drone Base Stations in Wireless Cellular Networks

Networking and Internet Architecture 2018-04-24 v1

Abstract

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.

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@article{arxiv.1804.08415,
  title  = {On the Number and 3D Placement of Drone Base Stations in Wireless Cellular Networks},
  author = {Elham Kalantari and Halim Yanikomeroglu and Abbas Yongacoglu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.08415},
  year   = {2018}
}