IEICE Trans - Stochastic Channel Selection for UAV-Aided Data Collection

Stochastic Channel Selection for UAV-Aided Data Collection

Tianyu LU  Haibo DAI  Juan ZHAO  Baoyun WANG

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E102-A   No.3   pp.598-603
Publication Date: 2019/03/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1587/transfun.E102.A.598
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Communication Theory and Signals
Keyword:
unmanned aerial vehicle,  delay,  time-varying,  stochastic game,  Nash equilibrium,

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Summary:
We investigate the uplink channel selection problem of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided data collection system in delay-sensitive sensor networks. In the studied model, the fixed-wing UAV is dispatched to gather sensing information from terrestrial sensor nodes (SNs) and they contend for uplink channels for transmission. With the goal of minimizing the system-wide delay, we formulate a resource allocation problem. Encountered with the challenge that the flight trajectory of UAV is unknown to SNs and the wireless channel is time-varying, we solve the problem by stochastic game approach and further propose a fully distributed channel selection algorithm which is proved to converge to a pure strategy Nash Equilibrium (NE). Simulation results are presented to show that our proposed algorithm has good performance.