Throughput Maximization for Backscatter- and Cache-assisted Wireless Powered UAV Technology
2022 (English)In: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, ISSN 0018-9545, E-ISSN 1939-9359, Vol. 71, no 5, p. 5187-5202Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This paper investigates a wireless powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication network with backscatter and caching technologies. Specifically, we assume a self-energized UAV with a cache memory is deployed as a flying backscatter device (BD), term the UAV-enabled BD (UB), to relay the source's signals to the destination. Whereas the source S can act as a wireless charging station or a base station to supply power or transmit information to the UB using the dynamic time splitting (DTS) method. The UAV utilizes its harvested energy for backscattering (i.e., passive communication) and transmit information (i.e., active communication) to the destination. In this context, we aim to maximize the total throughput by jointly optimizing the DTS ratio and the UB's trajectory with caching capability at the UB. The formulation is troublesome to solve since it is a non-convex problem. To find solutions, we decompose the original problem into two sub-problems, whereas we first optimize the DTS ratio for a given UB's trajectory and the UB's trajectory optimization for a given DTS ratio. By using the KKT conditions, a closed-form expression for the optimal value of the DTS ratio is obtained, greatly reducing the computation time. Moreover, the solution of the second sub-problem can be acquired by adopting the successive convex approximation (SCA) technique. Consequently, an efficient alternating algorithm is proposed by leveraging the block coordinate descent (BCD) method. \bl{To show the advantages of the proposed BCD-based algorithm, we also provide the solution of the original problem applying the inner approximation (IA) method.} Finally, the intensive numerical results demonstrate that our proposed schemes achieve significant throughput gain in comparison to the benchmark schemes.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2022. Vol. 71, no 5, p. 5187-5202
Keywords [en]
Autonomous aerial vehicles, Backscatter, Backscatter communication (BackCom), caching, Communication system security, energy harvesting, reflection coefficient control, SWIPT, Throughput, time allocation, trajectory design, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), Vehicle dynamics, Wireless communication, Wireless sensor networks
National Category
Signal Processing
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-312599DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2022.3155190ISI: 000799654900055Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85125728563OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-312599DiVA, id: diva2:1660761
Note
QC 20220525
2022-05-242022-05-242022-09-23Bibliographically approved