Optimization of aerial base station location in LAP for disaster situations

Aerial telecommunication platforms will be a part of the future communication networks. In this paper, we address the issue of optimizing the location of Aerial Base Stations (ABS) in Low Altitude Platforms (LAP) to minimize the power consumption. We propose a dynamic algorithm which attempts to maximize the received power at ABS by moving it between multiple points within its coverage area. Furthermore, outage probability formula for each user has been derived to measure how much gain this algorithm can offer in line of sight (LOS) and non line of sight (NLOS) cases. Simulation results show that the employment of this algorithm saves more than 10 dB per user in case of Poisson distributed users.

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