This paper proposes deployment strategies for consumer unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to maximize the stationary coverage of a target area and to guarantee the continuity of the service through energy replenishment operations at ground charging stations. The three main contributions of our work are as follows. 1) A centralized optimal solution is proposed for the joint problem of UAV positioning for a target coverage ratio and scheduling the charging operations of the UAVs that involves travel to the ground station. 2) A distributed game-theory-based scheduling strategy is proposed using normal-form games with rigorous analysis on performance bounds. Furthermore, a bio-inspired scheme using attractive/repulsive spring actions are used for distributed positioning of the UAVs. 3) The cost-benefit tradeoffs of different levels of cooperation among the UAVs for the distributed charging operations is analyzed. This paper demonstrates that the distributed deployment using only 1-hop messaging achieves approximation of the centrally computed optimum, in terms of coverage and lifetime.


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    Title :

    Joint Coverage, Connectivity, and Charging Strategies for Distributed UAV Networks



    Publication date :

    2018-01-01



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    DDC:    629



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