Resource Allocation in UAV-Assisted M2M Communications for Disaster Rescue

Xilong Liu, Nirwan Ansari

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Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) promotes the awareness about our world and eases human life. In IoT, machine-to-machine (M2M) communications empowers machine-type-devices (MTDs) to cooperatively exchange information and perform actions. Current M2M communications primarily leverages cellular networks to provision reliable services. When a disruptive disaster destroys the local cellular infrastructure, unmanned aerial vehicle mounted base stations (UBS) can be deployed to assist rescue by facilitating M2M communications among the human portable/wearable MTDs (HMTDs). The UBS network access and resource allocation scheme is proposed to maximize the number of HMTDs to establish communications. We have validated the proposed scheme through extensive simulations.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number8528329
Pages (from-to)580-583
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Wireless Communications Letters
Volume8
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2019

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

  • Internet of Things
  • disaster rescue
  • machine-to-machine communications
  • network access and resource allocation
  • unmanned aerial vehicle mounted base station

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