Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can supplement the existing ground-based heterogeneous cellular networks (Het-Nets), by replacing/supporting damaged infrastructure, providing real-time video support at the site of an emergency, offloading traffic in congested areas, extending coverage, and filling coverage gaps. In this paper, we introduce distributed algorithms that leverage UAV mobility, enhanced inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC), and cell range expansion (CRE) techniques defined in 3GPP Release-10 and 3GPP Release-11. Through Monte-Carlo simulations, we compare the system-wide 5th percentile spectral efficiency (5pSE) while optimizing the performance using a brute force algorithm, a heuristic-based sequential algorithm, and a deep Q-learning algorithm. The autonomous UAVs jointly optimize their location, ICIC parameters, and CRE to maximize 5pSE gains and minimize the outage probability. Our results show that the ICIC technique relying on a simple heuristic outperforms the ICIC technique based on deep Q-learning. Taking advantage of the multiple optimization parameters for interference coordination, the heuristic based ICIC technique can achieve 5pSE values that are reasonably close to those achieved with exhaustive brute force search techniques, at a significantly lower computational complexity.


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    Title :

    Distributed Approaches for Inter-Cell Interference Coordination in UAV-Based LTE-Advanced HetNets


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    Publication date :

    2018-08-01


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    555994 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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