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Spatial Configuration of Agile Wireless Networks with Drone-BSs and User-in-the-loop
Agile networking can reduce over-engineering, costs, and energy waste.
Towards that end, it is vital to exploit all degrees of freedom of wireless
networks efficiently, so that service quality is not sacrificed. In order to
reap the benefits of flexible networking, we propose a spatial network
configuration scheme (SNC), which can result in efficient networking; both from
the perspective of network capacity, and profitability. First, SNC utilizes the
drone-base-stations (drone-BSs) to configure access points. Drone-BSs are
shifting paradigms of heterogeneous wireless networks by providing radically
flexible deployment opportunities. On the other hand, their limited endurance
and potential high cost increase the importance of utilizing drone-BSs
efficiently. Therefore, secondly, user mobility is exploited via
user-in-the-loop (UIL), which aims at influencing users' mobility by offering
incentives. The proposed uncoordinated SNC is a computationally efficient
method, yet, it may be insufficient to exploit the synergy between drone-BSs
and UIL. Hence, we propose joint SNC, which increases the performance gain
along with the computational cost. Finally, semi-joint SNC combines benefits of
joint SNC, with computational efficiency. Numerical results show that
semi-joint SNC is two orders of magnitude times faster than joint SNC, and more
than 15 percent profit can be obtained compared to conventional systems.Comment: To appear in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication