Deployment of Drone Based Small Cells for Public Safety Communication System

Ali, Kamran, Nguyen, Huan X., Vien, Quoc-Tuan, Shah, Purav and Raza, Mohsin (2020) Deployment of Drone Based Small Cells for Public Safety Communication System. IEEE Systems Journal, 14 (2). pp. 2882-2891. ISSN 1932-8184

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Abstract

In the event of a natural disaster, communications infrastructure plays an important role in organizing effective rescue services. However, the infrastructure-based communications are often affected during severe disaster events such as earthquakes, landslides, floods, and storm surges. Addressing this issue, the article proposes a novel drone-based cellular infrastructure to revive necessary communications for out-of-coverage user equipment (UE) which is in the disaster area. In particular, a matching game algorithm is proposed using one-to-many approach wherein several drone small cells (DSCs) are deployed to match different UEs to reach a stable connection with optimal throughput. In addition, a medium access control framework is then developed to optimize emergency and high priority communications initiated from the rescue workers and vulnerable individuals. The simulation results show that the throughput for the out-of-coverage UEs are significantly improved when the DSCs are deployed in public safety network while the channel access delay is also notably reduced for emergency communications within the affected areas.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: G400 Computer Science
G500 Information Systems
Department: Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Computer and Information Sciences
Depositing User: Ay Okpokam
Date Deposited: 29 Nov 2019 11:27
Last Modified: 31 Jul 2021 11:47
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/41640

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