Self-Organizing Flying Drones with Massive MIMO Networking
Abstract
This article studies distributed algorithms to control self-organizing swarm drone hotspots with massive MIMO
networking capabilities - a network scenario referred to as
OrgSwarm. We attempt to answer the following fundamental
question: what is the optimal way to provide spectrally-efficient
wireless access to a multitude of ground nodes with mobile base
stations/aerial relays mounted on a swarm of drones and endowed
with a large number of antennas; when we can control the position
of many-antenna-enabled drones, access association of ground
nodes to drones, and the transmit power of ground nodes?
The article first derives a mathematical formulation of the
problem of spectral efficiency maximization through joint control
of the movement of many-antenna-enabled aerial drones, access
association of single-antenna ground nodes to many-antenna
drones, and transmit power of ground nodes. It is shown that the
resulting network control problem is a mixed integer nonlinear
nonconvex programming problem (MINLP). We then first design
a distributed solution algorithm with polynomial computational
complexity. Then, a centralized but globally optimal solution
algorithm is designed based on a combination of the branch
and bound framework and convex relaxation techniques to
provide a performance benchmark for the distributed algorithm.
Results indicate that the distributed algorithm achieves a network
spectral efficiency very close (over 95% on average) to the global
optimum.
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