Jointly optimized 3D drone mounted base station deployment and user association in drone assisted mobile access networks

X Sun, N Ansari, R Fierro - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In drone assisted mobile networks, a drone mounted base station (DBS) is deployed over a
hotspot area to help user equipments (UEs) download their traffic from the macro base …

Multiple drone-cell deployment analyses and optimization in drone assisted radio access networks

W Shi, J Li, W Xu, H Zhou, N Zhang, S Zhang… - IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a drone assisted radio access networks architecture in which
drone-cells are leveraged to relay data between base stations and users. Based on the state …

Placing multiple drone base stations in hotspots

S Zhang, X Sun, N Ansari - 2018 IEEE 39th Sarnoff Symposium, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Users in a hotspot area may experience low Quality of Service (QoS) owing to the high traffic
demands and limited bandwidth resources in downloading traffic from the nearby Macro …

Latency aware drone base station placement in heterogeneous networks

X Sun, N Ansari - GLOBECOM 2017-2017 IEEE Global …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Different from traditional static small cells, Drone Base Stations (DBSs) exhibit their own
advantages, ie, faster and cheaper to deploy, more flexibly reconfigured, and likely to have …

Optimized deployment of drone base station to improve user experience in cellular networks

H Huang, AV Savkin, M Ding, MA Kaafar - Journal of Network and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Modern wireless traffic demand pushes Internet Service Providers to develop effective
strategies to improve user experience. Since deploying dense stationary base stations …

Latency aware 3D placement and user association in drone-assisted heterogeneous networks with FSO-based backhaul

S Zhang, N Ansari - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Drone Base Station (DBS) is expected to play an important role in next generation cellular
networks due to its maneuverability in establishing air-to-ground Line of Sight (LoS) links …

Multi-drone 3-D trajectory planning and scheduling in drone-assisted radio access networks

W Shi, J Li, N Cheng, F Lyu, S Zhang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A drone base station (DBS) is a promising technique to extend wireless connections for
uncovered users of terrestrial radio access networks (RANs). To improve user fairness and …

Jointly optimizing drone-mounted base station placement and user association in heterogeneous networks

X Sun, N Ansari - 2018 IEEE International Conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Applying Drone-mounted Base Station (DBS) to assist Macro Base Station (MBS) can
potentially increase the throughput of the mobile access network. In this paper, we first …

3D Drone-cell deployment optimization for drone assisted radio access networks

W Shi, J Li, W Xu, H Zhou, N Zhang… - 2017 IEEE/CIC …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Drone-cell can enhance both the capacity and the coverage of Radio Access Networks
(RAN) through relaying data between base stations and potential users. In this paper, we …

Backhaul-aware drone base station placement and resource management for FSO-based drone-assisted mobile networks

L Yu, X Sun, S Shao, Y Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In drone-assisted mobile networks, Drone-mounted Base Stations (DBSs) are responsively
and flexibly deployed over any Places of Interest (PoI), such as sporadic hotspots and …