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3D UAV Trajectory and Communication Design for Simultaneous Uplink and Downlink Transmission
In this paper, we investigate the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-Aided simultaneous uplink and downlink transmission networks, where one UAV acting as a disseminator is connected to multiple access points (AP), and the other UAV acting as a base station (BS) collects data from numerous sensor nodes (SNs). The goal of this paper is to maximize the system throughput by jointly optimizing the 3D UAV trajectory, communication scheduling, and UAV-AP/SN transmit power. We first consider a special case where the UAV-BS and UAV-AP trajectories are pre-determined. Although the resulting problem is an integer and non-convex optimization problem, a globally optimal solution is obtained by applying the polyblock outer approximation (POA) method based on the problem's hidden monotonic structure. Subsequently, for the general case considering the 3D UAV trajectory optimization, an efficient iterative algorithm is proposed to alternately optimize the divided sub-problems based on the successive convex approximation (SCA) technique. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed design is able to achieve significant system throughput gain over the benchmarks. In addition, the SCA-based method can achieve nearly the same performance as the POA-based method with much lower computational complexity
Analyses of pion-nucleon elastic scattering amplitudes up to in extended-on-mass-shell subtraction scheme
We extend the analysis of elastic pion-nucleon scattering up to
level using extended-on-mass-shell subtraction scheme within the framework of
covariant baryon chiral perturbation theory. Numerical fits to partial wave
phase shift data up to GeV are performed to pin down the free
low energy constants. A good description to the existing phase shift data is
achieved. We find a good convergence for the chiral series at ,
considerably improved with respect to the -level analyses found in
previous literature. Also, the leading order contribution from explicit
resonance and partially-included loop
contribution are included to describe phase shift data up to
GeV. As phenomenological applications, we investigate chiral correction to the
Goldberger-Treiman relation % and find that it converges rapidly,
and the correction is found to be very small: . We also
get a reasonable prediction of pion-nucleon sigma term up to
by performing fits including both the pion-nucleon partial wave phase
shift data and the lattice QCD data. We report that MeV
from the fit without , and MeV from the
fit with explicit .Comment: The final version published in Phys.Rev. D 87, 054019 (2013
Throughput Maximization for UAV-Aided Backscatter Communication Networks
This paper investigates unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided backscatter communication (BackCom) networks, where the UAV is leveraged to help the backscatter device (BD) forward signals to the receiver. Based on the presence or absence of a direct link between BD and receiver, two protocols, namely transmit-backscatter (TB) protocol and transmit-backscatter-relay (TBR) protocol, are proposed to utilize the UAV to assist the BD. In particular, we formulate the system throughput maximization problems for the two protocols by jointly optimizing the time allocation, reflection coefficient and UAV trajectory. Different static/dynamic circuit power consumption models for the two protocols are analyzed. The resulting optimization problems are shown to be non-convex, which are challenging to solve. We first consider the dynamic circuit power consumption model, and decompose the original problems into three sub-problems, namely time allocation optimization with fixed UAV trajectory and reflection coefficient, reflection coefficient optimization with fixed UAV trajectory and time allocation, and UAV trajectory optimization with fixed reflection coefficient and time allocation. Then, an efficient iterative algorithm is proposed for both protocols by leveraging the block coordinate descent method and successive convex approximation (SCA) techniques. In addition, for the static circuit power consumption model, we obtain the optimal time allocation with a given reflection coefficient and UAV trajectory and the optimal reflection coefficient with low computational complexity by using the Lagrangian dual method. Simulation results show that the proposed protocols are able to achieve significant throughput gains over the compared benchmarks
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