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DRL-Based UAV Path Planning for Coverage Hole Avoidance: Energy Consumption and Outage Time Minimization Trade-Offs
Coverage holes pose critical challenges to reliability of wireless networks and their quality of service (QoS) and therefore should be avoided in the coverage design. In this paper, we address this issue through the deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as mobile base stations, and we propose specific UAV path planning. A point is said to be in a coverage hole if the coverage probability for that point is below a certain threshold, e.g., 90%. This definition is more suitable for applications such as surveillance or sensor networks. In this paper, we target applications such as wireless communications for which QoS requirement allow only for short time disconnections, i.e., minimal outage time. As such, in addition to avoiding coverage holes, we should also make the outage time as small as possible. By deploying a deep reinforcement learning algorithm, we find optimal UAV paths based on the two families of trajectories: spiral and oval curves, to tackle different design considerations and constraints, in terms of QoS, energy consumption and coverage hole avoidance. We show that for a typical point on the cell, there is a trade-off between minimizing the maximum outage time length and consumed mechanical energy. Our observations indicate that such a trade-off is more pronounced for spiral trajectories compared to oval trajectories, but both of them are useful depending on the QoS and energy constraints imposed by the system.
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