On the Number and 3D Placement of Drone Base Stations in Wireless Cellular Networks
Using drone base stations (drone BSs) in wireless networks has started attracting attention. Drone BSs can assist the ground BSs in both capacity and coverage enhancement. One of the important problems about integrating drone BSs to cellular networks is the management of their placement to satisfy the dynamic system requirements. In this paper, we propose a method to find the positions of drone BSs in an area with different user densities using a heuristic algorithm. The goal is to find the minimum number of drone BSs and their 3D placement so that all the users are served. Our simulation results show that the proposed approach can satisfy the quality of service requirements of the network.
2016 IEEE 84th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall)