We consider multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serving a density of ground terminals (GTs) as mobile base stations. The objective is to minimize the outage probability of GT-to-UAV transmissions. In this context, the optimal placement of UAVs under different UAV altitude constraints and GT densities is studied. First, using a random deployment argument, a general upper bound on the optimal outage probability is found for any density of GTs and any number of UAVs. Lower bounds on the performance of optimal deployments are also determined. The upper and lower bounds are combined to show that the optimal outage probability decays exponentially with the number of UAVs for GT densities with finite support. Next, the structure of optimal deployments are studied when the common altitude constraint is large. In this case, for a wide class of GT densities, it is shown that all UAVs should be placed to the same location in an optimal deployment. A design implication is that one can use a single multi-antenna UAV as opposed to multiple single-antenna UAVs without loss of optimality. Numerical optimization of UAV deployments are carried out using particle swarm optimization. Simulation results are also presented to confirm the analytical findings.


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    Title :

    Outage-Optimized Deployment of UAVs


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    Publication date :

    2019-09-01


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    Conference paper


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    Electronic Resource


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    English




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