Abstract

The mobility nature of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) takes them into high consideration in military, public, and civilian applications in recent years. However, scaling out millions of UAVs in the air will inevitably lead to a more crowded radio frequency (RF) spectrum. Therefore, researchers have been focused on new technologies such as millimeter-wave, Terahertz, and visible light communications (VLCs) to alleviate the spectrum crunch problem. VLC has shown its great potential for UAV networking because of its high data rate, interference-free to legacy RF spectrum, and low-complex frontends. While the physical layer design of the VLC system has been extensively investigated, visible-light-band networking is still in its infancy because of the intermittent link availability caused by blockage and miss-alignment among transceivers. Fortunately, drones can be deployed dynamically at network runtime to establish line-of-sight (LOS) links to users in blockage-rich environments. In this article, we first formulate a sum-rate optimization problem for visible-light-band UAV networks by jointly control the real-time position and orientations of drones. We then propose a solution algorithm based on particle swarm optimization (PSO). The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can converge in 10 to 20 iteration time and can result in up to 24% performance gain compared to that in heuristic-central-point drone deployment.

Department(s)

Computer Science

Keywords and Phrases

Particle Swarm Optimization; Throughput Optimization; Unmanned Aerial Vehicles; Visible Light Network

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

2331-9860

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

Document Version

Final Version

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text

Language(s)

English

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© 2023 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Jan 2022

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