The hybrid satellite-UAV-terrestrial maritime networks have shown great promise for broadband coverage at sea.The existing works focused on vessels collaboratively served by UAV-enabled aerial base station(ABSs)and te...The hybrid satellite-UAV-terrestrial maritime networks have shown great promise for broadband coverage at sea.The existing works focused on vessels collaboratively served by UAV-enabled aerial base station(ABSs)and terrestrial base stations(TBSs)deployed along the coast,and proved that data rate could be improved by optimizing transmit power and ABS’s position.In practice,users on a vessel can be collaboratively served by an ABS and a vesselenabled base station(VBS)in different networks.In this case,how to select the network for users on a vessel is still an open issue.In this paper,a TBS and a satellite respectively provide wireless backhaul for the ABS and the VBS.The network selection is jointly optimized with transmit power of ABS and VBS,and ABS’s position for improving data rate of all users.We solve it by finding candidates for network selection and iteratively solving transmit power and ABS’s position for each candidate.Simulation results demonstrate that data rate can be improved by collaborative coverage for users on a vessel.展开更多
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.62001265)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.buctrc202124)。
文摘The hybrid satellite-UAV-terrestrial maritime networks have shown great promise for broadband coverage at sea.The existing works focused on vessels collaboratively served by UAV-enabled aerial base station(ABSs)and terrestrial base stations(TBSs)deployed along the coast,and proved that data rate could be improved by optimizing transmit power and ABS’s position.In practice,users on a vessel can be collaboratively served by an ABS and a vesselenabled base station(VBS)in different networks.In this case,how to select the network for users on a vessel is still an open issue.In this paper,a TBS and a satellite respectively provide wireless backhaul for the ABS and the VBS.The network selection is jointly optimized with transmit power of ABS and VBS,and ABS’s position for improving data rate of all users.We solve it by finding candidates for network selection and iteratively solving transmit power and ABS’s position for each candidate.Simulation results demonstrate that data rate can be improved by collaborative coverage for users on a vessel.
