TY - JOUR
T1 - Deployment of Drone Based Small Cells for Public Safety Communication System
AU - Ali, Kamran
AU - Nguyen, Huan X.
AU - Vien, Quoc-Tuan
AU - Shah, Purav
AU - Raza, Mohsin
PY - 2020/6/1
Y1 - 2020/6/1
N2 - In the event of a natural disaster, communications infrastructure plays an important role in organizing effective rescue services. However, the infrastructure-based communications are often affected during severe disaster events such as earthquakes, landslides, floods, and storm surges. Addressing this issue, the article proposes a novel drone-based cellular infrastructure to revive necessary communications for out-of-coverage user equipment (UE) which is in the disaster area. In particular, a matching game algorithm is proposed using one-to-many approach wherein several drone small cells (DSCs) are deployed to match different UEs to reach a stable connection with optimal throughput. In addition, a medium access control framework is then developed to optimize emergency and high priority communications initiated from the rescue workers and vulnerable individuals. The simulation results show that the throughput for the out-of-coverage UEs are significantly improved when the DSCs are deployed in public safety network while the channel access delay is also notably reduced for emergency communications within the affected areas.
AB - In the event of a natural disaster, communications infrastructure plays an important role in organizing effective rescue services. However, the infrastructure-based communications are often affected during severe disaster events such as earthquakes, landslides, floods, and storm surges. Addressing this issue, the article proposes a novel drone-based cellular infrastructure to revive necessary communications for out-of-coverage user equipment (UE) which is in the disaster area. In particular, a matching game algorithm is proposed using one-to-many approach wherein several drone small cells (DSCs) are deployed to match different UEs to reach a stable connection with optimal throughput. In addition, a medium access control framework is then developed to optimize emergency and high priority communications initiated from the rescue workers and vulnerable individuals. The simulation results show that the throughput for the out-of-coverage UEs are significantly improved when the DSCs are deployed in public safety network while the channel access delay is also notably reduced for emergency communications within the affected areas.
KW - Drone based communications
KW - MAC design for critical applications
KW - drone small cells
KW - energy efficiency
KW - public safety networks
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85086078578&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/jsyst.2019.2959668
DO - 10.1109/jsyst.2019.2959668
M3 - Article
VL - 14
SP - 2882
EP - 2891
JO - IEEE Systems Journal
JF - IEEE Systems Journal
SN - 1932-8184
IS - 2
M1 - 9034513
ER -