학술논문

UAV-Assisted Wireless-Powered Two-Way Communications
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems IEEE Trans. Intell. Transport. Syst. Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on. 25(3):2641-2655 Mar, 2024
Subject
Transportation
Aerospace
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Autonomous aerial vehicles
Trajectory
Wireless communication
Optimization
Throughput
Downlink
Resource management
UAV communications
two-way communications
SWIPT
trajectory design
convex optimization
Language
ISSN
1524-9050
1558-0016
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the optimal resource allocation in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted wireless-powered two-way communications. The communication process considered here consists of two steps. First, the UAV transmits a control signal over wireless links while ground terminals (GTs) receive information and harvest energy simultaneously, with each GT then using the harvested energy to send data to the UAV. We aim to maximize the minimum uplink throughput among GTs while ensuring the minimum requirement of the downlink throughput for each GT by optimizing the time allocation, the transmit power and the trajectory of the UAV along with the energy harvesting ratio of GTs. First, we propose an effective optimization-based approach to address the non-convexity of the formulated problem, which is difficult to solve. Specifically, we apply a successive convex optimization technique to approximate the convex problem for each optimization variable and find the optimal resource management strategy through a block coordinate descent algorithm. To reduce the high computational complexity of the optimization-based approach, we also develop a deep learning (DL)-based approach consisting of an efficient deep neural network framework and a novel training methodology. Simulation results confirm that the proposed schemes show significant performance improvements over existing baseline schemes. We also confirm that the DL-based scheme achieves performance comparable to the optimization-based scheme with a much shorter computation time.