Energy-Efficient Communications in Solar-Powered Unmanned Aerial Systems

Seng, Shuming; Yang, Guang; Li, Xi; Ji, Hong; Luo, Changqing

doi:10.1109/globecom42002.2020.9347958

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“…Authors in [134] investigated the possibility of mounting solar panels on top of UAVs to increase their autonomy while taking into account routing, data rate, and transmit power constraints. Evidently, the main issue with this solution is represented by the additional payload due to the panels themselves.…”

Section: E Energy Efficiencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Post-Disaster Communications: Enabling Technologies, Architectures, and Open Challenges

Matracia

Saeed

Kishk

et al. 2022

IEEE Open J. Commun. Soc.

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The number of disasters has increased over the past decade where these calamities significantly affect the functionality of communication networks. In the context of 6G, airborne and spaceborne networks offer hope in disaster recovery to serve the underserved and to be resilient in calamities. Therefore, our paper reviews the state-of-the-art literature on post-disaster wireless communication networks and provides insights for the future establishment of such networks. In particular, we first give an overview of the works investigating the general procedures and strategies for facing any large-scale disaster. Then, we present technological solutions for post-disaster communications, such as the recovery of the terrestrial infrastructure, installing aerial networks, and using spaceborne networks. Afterwards, we shed light on the technological aspects of post-disaster networks, primarily the physical and networking issues. We present the literature on channel modeling, coverage and capacity, radio resource management, localization, and energy efficiency in the physical layer part, and discuss the integrated space-air-ground architectures, routing, delay-tolerant/software-defined networks, and edge computing in the networking layer part. This paper also includes interesting simulation results which can provide practical guidelines about the deployment of ad hoc network architectures in emergency scenarios. Finally, we present several promising research directions, namely backhauling, cache-enabled and intelligent reflective surface-enabled networks, placement optimization of aerial base stations (ABSs), and the mobility-related aspects that come into play when deploying aerial networks, such as planning their trajectories and the consequent handovers (HOs).

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Section: E Energy Efficiencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Post-Disaster Communications: Enabling Technologies, Architectures, and Open Challenges

Matracia

Saeed

Kishk

et al. 2022

IEEE Open J. Commun. Soc.

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“…Reference [122] investigates the possibility of mounting solar panels on top of UAVs to increase their autonomy while taking into account routing, data rate, and transmit power constraints. Evidently, the main issue with this solution is represented by the additional payload due to the panels themselves.…”

Section: F Energy Efficiencymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Temporary communication system, DTN [120] Resilient networks [121] 2020 Solar powered UAVs [122] Beamforming, MIMO [124] 2021 Data retrieval [127] and load balancing. An interesting problem tackled with stochastic geometry is [128].…”

Section: F Energy Efficiencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Post-Disaster Communications: Enabling Technologies, Architectures, and Open Challenges

Matracia¹,

Saeed²,

Kishk³

et al. 2022

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The number of disasters has increased over the past decade where these calamities significantly affect the functionality of communication networks. In the context of 6G, airborne and spaceborne networks offer hope in disaster recovery to serve the underserved and to be resilient in calamities. Therefore, this paper surveys the state-of-the-art literature on post-disaster wireless communication networks and provides insights for the future establishment of such networks. In particular, we first give an overview of the works investigating the general procedures and strategies for counteracting any large-scale disasters. Then, we present the possible technological solutions for post-disaster communications, such as the recovery of the terrestrial infrastructure, installing aerial networks, and using spaceborne networks.Afterward, we shed light on the technological aspects of post-disaster networks, primarily the physical and networking issues. We present the literature on channel modeling, coverage and capacity, radio resource management, localization, and energy efficiency in the physical layer and discuss the integrated space-air-ground architectures, routing, delay-tolerant/software-defined networks, and edge computing in the networking layer. This paper also presents interesting simulation results which can provide practical guidelines about the deployment of ad hoc network architectures in emergency scenarios. Finally, we present several promising research directions, namely backhauling, placement optimization of aerial base stations, and the mobility-related aspects that come into play when deploying aerial networks, such as planning their trajectories and the consequent handovers.Maurilio Matracia and Mohamed-Slim Alouini are with the Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering

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“…To overcome these drawbacks, RE, especially solar power has been considered to prolong the UAV hovering time and eventually realize perpetual flight [154], [155]. The communication with RE-powered UAVs has been addressed as an optimization problem in [49], [147]- [149]. As the most widely adopted design issues regarding the UAV communications are the placement, the trajectory, and the flight time of the UAV, these issues were jointly optimized with on/off switching of the terrestrial BSs [147] or resource allocation [49], [147]- [149] subject to the minimum QoS constraints such as the data rate of the ground user [49], [147], [148] and the received power [147].…”

Section: B Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The communication with RE-powered UAVs has been addressed as an optimization problem in [49], [147]- [149]. As the most widely adopted design issues regarding the UAV communications are the placement, the trajectory, and the flight time of the UAV, these issues were jointly optimized with on/off switching of the terrestrial BSs [147] or resource allocation [49], [147]- [149] subject to the minimum QoS constraints such as the data rate of the ground user [49], [147], [148] and the received power [147]. The harvested energy from solar or wind was considered in dealing with the battery and energy consumption of the UAVs.…”

Section: B Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Renewable Energy-Enabled Cellular Networks

Ko¹,

Jung²,

Park³

et al. 2021

Preprint

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<div> <div> <div> <p>Renewable energy (RE)-powered base stations (BSs) have been considered as an attractive solution to address the exponential increasing energy demand in cellular networks while decreasing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. For the regions where reliable power grids are insufficient and infeasible to deploy, such as aerial platforms and harsh environments, RE has been an alternative power source for BSs. In this survey paper, we provide an overview of RE-enabled cellular networks, detailing their analysis, classification, and related works. First, we introduce the key components of RE-powered BSs along with their frequently adopted models. Second, we analyze the proposed strategies and design issues for RE-powered BSs that can be incorporated into cellular networks and categorize them into several groups to provide a good grasp. Third, we introduce feasibility studies on RE-powered BSs based on the recent literature. Fourth, we investigate RE-powered network components other than terrestrial BSs to address potential issues regarding RE-enabled networks. Finally, we suggest future research directions and conclusions. </p><p><br></p> </div> </div> </div>

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Energy-Efficient Communications in Solar-Powered Unmanned Aerial Systems

Cited by 7 publications

References 16 publications

Post-Disaster Communications: Enabling Technologies, Architectures, and Open Challenges

Post-Disaster Communications: Enabling Technologies, Architectures, and Open Challenges

Post-Disaster Communications: Enabling Technologies, Architectures, and Open Challenges

Renewable Energy-Enabled Cellular Networks

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