Cellular-enabled unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) require almost continuous cellular network connectivity to fulfill their missions successfully. However, the area (e.g., rural) they fly over may have partial coverage, making the path planning of such UAV missions a challenging task. Recently a tolerable outage duration is taken into account for such UAVs, and the trajectory optimization under this outage duration is studied. However, these existing studies consider only a single UAV and focus on optimization of each UAV’s own path separately even in multi-UAV scenarios. In this paper, we study the trajectory optimization problem for cellular-enabled UAVs by taking into account the collaboration among UAVs. That is, for a given set of UAVs, each with a mission to fly from a starting point to an ending point, we aim to optimize the total mission completion time for all UAVs such that none of them has a connection outage more than a threshold. We let UAVs collaborate and provide connectivity as relays to each other to solve their outage problem and shorten their trajectories. We first model and solve this problem using nonlinear programming after discretization of the problem. Since it takes longer to solve the problem with such an approach, we then provide a graph-based approximate solution that runs fast. Numerical results show that the proposed approximate solution provides close to optimal results and performs better than state-of-the-art solutions that consider each UAV separately without collaboration among UAVs.


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    Title :

    Collaborative Trajectory Optimization for Outage-aware Cellular-Enabled UAVs


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    Publication date :

    2021-04-01


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    Conference paper


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    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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