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Coordinated Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for Cellular-Connected UAV

New, WK; Leow, CY; Foh, CH; Wong, KK; Xu, H; Ghadi, FR; (2024) Coordinated Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for Cellular-Connected UAV. In: 2024 IEEE 7th International Symposium on Telecommunication Technologies: Exploring Future Frontiers in Telecommunication and Vehicular Technologies, ISTT 2024. (pp. pp. 42-47). IEEE: Langkawi Island, Malaysia. Green open access

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Abstract

Inter-cell interference (ICI) and limited sky coverage are major challenges to the development of cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). To address these challenges, we consider the applications of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). RIS is a promising solution capable of reconfiguring the phase of a reflected radio signal so as to enhance the desired signal strength or mitigate the ICI. In this paper, we propose a coordinated RIS-aided cellular-connected UAV scheme to provide ubiquitous coverage in the sky and mitigate the ICI of aerial users (AUs) while improving the performance of existing terrestrial users (TUs). We further develop an optimization algorithm to obtain the optimal coordinated beamforming and phase shift that maximize the weighted sum-rate (WSR) of the TUs subject to the AUs' rate requirement. Our simulation results show that the proposed coordinated RIS-aided cellular-connected UAV scheme is a promising solution where the WSR of the TUs increases with respect to the number of reflecting elements while satisfying the AUs' rate requirement. Compared to the baseline scheme without RIS, the proposed scheme also provides a WSR gain up to 48%.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Coordinated Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for Cellular-Connected UAV
Event: 2024 IEEE 7th International Symposium on Telecommunication Technologies (ISTT)
Dates: 21 Oct 2024 - 22 Oct 2024
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1109/ISTT63363.2024.10750627
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1109/istt63363.2024.10750627
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Cellular-Connected UAV, Reconfigurable Intel-ligent Surface, Inter-cell Interference, Weighted Sum-Rate
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10202882
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