1. Cost-Efficient Deployment of a Reliable Multi-UAV Unmanned Aerial System
- Author
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Babu, Nithin, Popovski, Petar, and Papadias, Constantinos B.
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Signal Processing (eess.SP) ,FOS: Computer and information sciences ,Autonomous aerial vehicles ,Vehicular and wireless technologies ,Numerical models ,Markov processes ,Information Theory (cs.IT) ,Computer Science - Information Theory ,Computer Science - Emerging Technologies ,Costs ,Steady-state ,Computer Science - Robotics ,Emerging Technologies (cs.ET) ,FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Analytical models ,Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Signal Processing ,Robotics (cs.RO) - Abstract
In this work, we study the trade-off between the reliability and the investment cost of an unmanned aerial system (UAS) consisting of a set of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) carrying radio access nodes, called portable access points (PAPs)), deployed to serve a set of ground nodes (GNs). Using the proposed algorithm, a given geographical region is equivalently represented as a set of circular regions, where each circle represents the coverage region of a PAP. Then, the steady-state availability of the UAS is analytically derived by modelling it as a continuous time birth-death Markov decision process (MDP). Numerical evaluations show that the investment cost to guarantee a given steady-state availability to a set of GNs can be reduced by considering the traffic demand and distribution of GNs., 5 Pages, 6 Figures, Conference: VTC2022-FAll (Workshops)
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- 2022