2022/06/29 by Payal Mittal, Mittal, Payal, Santosh Shah +3 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Engineering · #Cooperative Communication and Network Coding #Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks #FOS: Electrical engineering #Signal Processing (eess.SP) #UAV Applications and Optimization #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2206.14535
openalex publication_date 2022/06/29 · openalex created_date 2022/07/02 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This paper considers a multi-UAV network with a ground station (GS) that uses multi-hop relaying structure for data transmission in a power-efficient manner. The objective is to investigate the best possible multi-hop routing structure for data transmission to maximize the overall network throughput of a flying ad-hoc network (FANET) of UAVs. We formulate a problem to jointly optimize the multi-hop routing structure with the communication link selection for a given power budget so that the overall network throughput can be maximized. It appears that the formulated problem belongs to a class of nonconvex and integer optimization problems, thus making it NP-hard. To solve this problem efficiently, it is decoupled into two subproblems i) power allocation with known Bellman Ford-based multi-hop routing structure and ii) link selection problem. Further, these two subproblems are independently converted into convex problems by relaxation and solved in tandem for the best suboptimal solution to the main problem. Simulation results indicate that the proposed multi-hop routing schemes can achieve a significant improvement in network throughput compared to the other benchmark scheme.