Joint Altitude, Beamwidth, Location, and Bandwidth Optimization for UAV-Enabled Communications

Abstract

This letter investigates an uplink power control problem for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)-assisted wireless communications. We jointly optimize the UAV's flying altitude, antenna beamwidth, UAV's location, and ground terminals' allocated bandwidth, and transmit power to minimize the sum uplink power subject to the minimal rate demand. An iterative algorithm is proposed with low complexity to obtain a suboptimal solution. Numerical results show that the proposed algorithm can achieve good performance in terms of uplink sum power saving.