Predictive Deployment of UAV Base Stations in Wireless Networks: Machine Learning Meets Contract Theory

On Deployment of Multiple Base Stations for Energy-Efficient Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks

Data transmission from sensor nodes to a base station or a sink node often incurs significant energy consumption, which critically affects network lifetime. We generalize and solve the problem of deploying multiple base stations to maximize network lifetime in terms of two different metrics under one-hop and multihop communication models. In the one-hop communication model, the sensors far away...

Optimal Deployment of UAV Networks for Delivering Emergency Wireless Coverage

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks have emerged as a promising technique to rapidly provide wireless coverage to a geographical area, where a flying UAV can be fast deployed to serve as cell site. Existing work on UAV-enabled wireless networks overlook the emergency UAV deployment for wireless coverage, and such deployment problems have only been studied recently in sensor networks. Unlike ...

Distributed Wireless Channel Allocation in Networks with Mobile Base Stations

In traditional cellular systems with fixed base stations the channel reuse pattern is static and deterministic. When the cell layout is dynamic, due to the mobility of base stations, the cluster of cells within co-channel interference range changes with time. Consequently, the channel reuse pattern is highly dynamic. Moreover, base stations also need wireless channels to communicate amongst the...

Placing Base Stations in Wireless Indoor Communication Networks

Hierarchical Structure for Supporting Movable Base Stations in Wireless Networks

Wireless networks with movable base stations combine the advantages of mobile ad hoc networks and wireless LAN to achieve both flexibility and scalability. We present the hierarchical mobile wireless network (HMWN) to support movable base stations. HMWN may be applied to ad hoc networks as well to build a virtual hierarchy. In such a system, mobile hosts are organized into hierarchical groups. ...