Journal
IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL
Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages 2134-2152Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2021.3091166
Keywords
3-D placement; drone; IoT; nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA); resource allocation; UAV-aided edge computing; unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
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This article investigates the problem of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled cloud network under partial computation offloading scenario. The goal is to maximize energy efficiency and minimize costs by optimizing UAV placements, transmit power, and cloud resources. The study decomposes the problem into three subproblems and proposes techniques to solve them, showing the effectiveness and benefits of the approach in relevant applications.
This article considers the problem of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled cloud network under partial computation offloading scenario, where multiple UAV-mounted aerial base stations are employed to serve a group of remote Internet of Things ground-based smart devices (ISDs). The main objective of this work is to maximize energy efficiency by minimizing the number of needed drones while minimizing the cost associated with serving the ISDs under some realistic quality of service constraints. To that end, we aim to jointly optimize the 3-D UAV placements, transmit power, and cloud resources. This represents a challenging, nonconvex, and NP-hard optimization problem. In this work, we decompose the optimization problem into three separate subproblems, namely, 2-D UAV positioning, UAV altitude optimization, and UAV-cloud resource association. These subproblems are solved using a modified global K-means, successive convex approximation, and successive linear programming techniques. A comprehensive simulation study and comparative evaluation against the state-of-the-art (SOTA) algorithms are conducted to demonstrate the utility of the proposed approach and its benefits in applications of interest.
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