Artículo
Deployment of UAV-mounted Access Points for VoWiFi Service with guaranteed QoS
Autor/es | Mayor Gallego, Vicente Jesús
Estepa Alonso, Rafael María Estepa Alonso, Antonio José Madinabeitia Luque, Germán |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Ingeniería Telemática |
Fecha de publicación | 2022-09-01 |
Fecha de depósito | 2022-10-28 |
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Resumen | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks have emerged as a promising means to provide wireless coverage in open geographical areas. Nevertheless, in wireless networks such as WiFi, signal coverage alone is insufficient to ... Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks have emerged as a promising means to provide wireless coverage in open geographical areas. Nevertheless, in wireless networks such as WiFi, signal coverage alone is insufficient to guarantee that network performance meets the quality of service (QoS) requirements of real-time communication services, as it also depends on the traffic load produced by ground users sharing the medium access. We formulate a new problem for UAVs optimal deployment in which the QoS level is guaranteed for real-time voice over WiFi (VoWiFi) communications. More specifically, our goal is to dispatch the minimum number of UAVs possible to provide VoWiFi service to a set of ground users subject to coverage, call-blocking probability, and QoS constraints. Optimal solutions are found using well-known heuristics that include K-means clusterization and genetic algorithms. Via numerical results, we show that the WiFi standard revision (e.g. IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac) in use plays an important role in both coverage and QoS performance and hence, in the number of UAVs required to provide the service. |
Cita | Mayor Gallego, V.J., Estepa Alonso, R.M., Estepa Alonso, A.J. y Madinabeitia Luque, G. (2022). Deployment of UAV-mounted Access Points for VoWiFi Service with guaranteed QoS. Computer Communications, 193, 94-108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2022.06.037. |
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