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Internet of Drones (IoD) employs drones as the internet of things (IoT) devices to provision applications such as traffic surveillance and object tracking. Data collection service is a typical application where multiple drones are deployed to collect information from the ground and send them to the IoT gateway for further processing. The performance of IoD networks is constrained by drones’ battery capacities, and hence we utilize both energy harvesting technologies and power control to address this limitation. Specifically, we optimize drones’ wireless transmission power at each time epoch in energy harvesting aided time-varying IoD networks for the data collection service with the objective to minimize the average system energy cost. We then formulate a Markov Decision Process (MDP) model to characterize the power control process in dynamic IoD networks, which is then solved by our proposed model-free deep actor-critic reinforcement learning algorithm. The performance of our algorithm is demonstrated via extensive simulations.
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Joint Drone Association and Content Placement in Cache-Enabled Internet of Drones
Internet of drones (IoD), employing drones as the internet of things (IoT) devices, brings flexibility to IoT networks and has been used to provision several applications (e.g., object tracking and traffic surveillance). The explosive growth of users and IoD applications injects massive traffic into IoD networks, hence causing congestions and reducing the quality of service (QoS). In order to improve the QoS, caching at IoD gateways is a promising solution which stores popular IoD data and sends them directly to the users instead of activating drones to transmit the data; this reduces the traffic in IoD networks. In order to fully utilize the storage-limited caches, appropriate content placement decisions should be made to determine which data should be cached. On the other hand, appropriate drone association strategies, which determine the serving IoD gateway for each drone, help distribute the network traffic properly and hence improve the QoS. In our work, we consider a joint optimization of drone association and content placement problem aimed at maximizing the average data transfer rate. This problem is formulated as an integer linear programming (ILP) problem. We then design the Drone Association and Content Placement (DACP) algorithm to solve this problem with low computational complexity. Extensive simulations demonstrate the performance of DACP.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1814748
- PAR ID:
- 10185637
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 1 to 6
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOBECOM38437.2019.9013274
