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Location optimization for tethered aerial base station serving mmWave high altitude UAVs

Abstract

Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle-User Equipment (UAV-UE) is integral to millimeter wave (mmWave)-based wireless cellular systems. UAV-UE at high altitudes encounter limited connectivity with terrestrial base stations. Tethered Aerial Base Stations (TABS) are viable alternatives to terrestrial base stations. Optimal placement of a TABS in a three-dimensional environment is necessary and critical to serve multiple moving UAV-UE units with reliable connectivity. In this work, we propose a contextual multiarmed bandit framework to learn the optimal TABS locations. We consider multiple UAV-UE units moving at high altitudes in an uplink mmWave setting. Under this framework, the TABS acts as a learning agent leveraging position information about served UAV-UE units to provide connectivity with minimum Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) threshold requirements. We first compare the Upper Confidence Bound (UCB) and Thompson Sampling (TS)-based learning strategies against the traditional naive-based approach. Our simulation results show that the TS-based approach learns optimal locations with a 31% and 51% average regret-reduction ratio (ARR) over UCB and naive-based approaches, respectively. Also, the TS-based learning strategy for TABS reliably achieves the required SNR for UAV-UE units under multiple contexts, compared to a static TABS location.

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hal-04762101 , version 1 (31-10-2024)

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Pravallika Katragunta, Michel Barbeau, Joaquin Garcia‐alfaro, Evangelos Kranakis, Venkata Srinivas Kothapalli. Location optimization for tethered aerial base station serving mmWave high altitude UAVs. IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), Aug 2024, Kingston, France. pp.271-276, ⟨10.1109/CCECE59415.2024.10667117⟩. ⟨hal-04762101⟩
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