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Title: An FSO-based Drone Assisted Mobile Access Network for Emergency Communications
Deploying drone-mounted base stations (DBSs) can quickly recover the communications of the mobile users (MUs) in a disaster struck area. That is, the DBSs can act as relay nodes to transmit data from remote working base stations to the MUs. Since the DBSs could be deployed very close to the MUs, the access link data rates between the DBSs and the MUs are well provisioned. However, the DBSs may be far away from the remote working base stations, and thus the backhaul link data rate between a DBS and the remote working base station could be throttled. Free Space Optics (FSO), which has been demonstrated to provision high speed point-to-point wireless communications, can be leveraged to improve the capacity of the backhaul link. Since FSO requires line-of-sight between a DBS and a remote working macro base station, DBSs have to carefully deployed. In this paper, we design a QoS aware drone base station placement and mobile user association strategy (RESCUE) to jointly optimize the DBS deployment, MU association, and bandwidth allocation such that the number of the served MUs in the disaster struck area could be maximized. The performance of RESCUE is validated via extensive simulations.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1757207 1814748
PAR ID:
10139134
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
ISSN:
2334-329X
Page Range / eLocation ID:
1 to 1
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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