UAV-aided cellular networks,millimeter wave(mm-wave)communications and multi-antenna techniques are viewed as promising components of the solution for beyond-5G(B5G)and even 6G communications.By leveraging the power o...UAV-aided cellular networks,millimeter wave(mm-wave)communications and multi-antenna techniques are viewed as promising components of the solution for beyond-5G(B5G)and even 6G communications.By leveraging the power of stochastic geometry,this paper aims at providing an effective framework for modeling and analyzing a UAV-aided heterogeneous cellular network,where the terrestrial base stations(TBSs)and the UAV base stations(UBSs)coexist,and the UBSs are provided with mm-wave and multi-antenna techniques.By modeling the TBSs as a PPP and the UBSs as a Matern hard-core point pro-´cess of type II(MPH-II),approximated but accurate analytical results for the average rate of the typical user of both tiers are derived through an approximation method based on the mean interference-to-signal ratio(MISR)gain.The influence of some relevant parameters is discussed in detail,and some insights into the network deployment and optimization are revealed.Numerical results show that some trade-offs are worthy of being considered,such as the antenna array size,the altitude of the UAVs and the power control factor of the UBSs.展开更多
文摘UAV-aided cellular networks,millimeter wave(mm-wave)communications and multi-antenna techniques are viewed as promising components of the solution for beyond-5G(B5G)and even 6G communications.By leveraging the power of stochastic geometry,this paper aims at providing an effective framework for modeling and analyzing a UAV-aided heterogeneous cellular network,where the terrestrial base stations(TBSs)and the UAV base stations(UBSs)coexist,and the UBSs are provided with mm-wave and multi-antenna techniques.By modeling the TBSs as a PPP and the UBSs as a Matern hard-core point pro-´cess of type II(MPH-II),approximated but accurate analytical results for the average rate of the typical user of both tiers are derived through an approximation method based on the mean interference-to-signal ratio(MISR)gain.The influence of some relevant parameters is discussed in detail,and some insights into the network deployment and optimization are revealed.Numerical results show that some trade-offs are worthy of being considered,such as the antenna array size,the altitude of the UAVs and the power control factor of the UBSs.
