Cheng Zhan;Huan Yan;Rongfei Fan;Han Hu;Shubin Xu;Jian Yang
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Abstract
Cellular-connected Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have significant potential for target tracking in future cellular networks due to their broad coverage and operational flexibility. In this paper, we consider a multi-cell cellular network with a cellular-connected UAV for target tracking, which encounters challenges such as unpredictable flight energy consumption from the stochastic movements of the tracking target and severe uplink interference from ground devices (GDs). To tackle these challenges, we propose a multi-stage stochastic optimization framework focused on energy-efficient target tracking with interference coordination. Our objective is to optimize the long-term average uplink throughput of both aerial users and GDs by jointly optimizing the UAV's trajectory, power allocation, and cell association across multiple orthogonal communication resource blocks (RBs). The formulated stochastic non-convex problem is first transformed into a deterministic problem for each time slot by using the Lyapunov optimization framework. An online optimization strategy is proposed, utilizing the optimal structure, alternative optimization, and successive convex approximation (SCA) techniques. Simulation results show that the proposed approach significantly enhances network throughput and UAV energy queue stability compared to existing baseline schemes.
期刊介绍:
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing addresses key technical issues related to various aspects of mobile computing. This includes (a) architectures, (b) support services, (c) algorithm/protocol design and analysis, (d) mobile environments, (e) mobile communication systems, (f) applications, and (g) emerging technologies. Topics of interest span a wide range, covering aspects like mobile networks and hosts, mobility management, multimedia, operating system support, power management, online and mobile environments, security, scalability, reliability, and emerging technologies such as wearable computers, body area networks, and wireless sensor networks. The journal serves as a comprehensive platform for advancements in mobile computing research.