An optimal location strategy for multiple drone base stations in massive MIMO

Abstract

The concept of drone base stations (DBSs) has been applied to reduce the distance of the wireless link between a macro base station and its active users under diverse scenarios in military communications, smart industries, and high-density networks, and to provide service in topologies with damaged infrastructure. In this paper, we address the optimal positioning of multiple DBSs in a multiple-input multiple-output wireless network setting. We present a low-complexity machine learning-based algorithm to optimize the location of the DBSs by minimizing the collective wireless received signal strength experienced by the active terminals. The proposed algorithm reduces the propagation loss in the system and provides a lower bit error rate when compared with the Euclidean cost benchmark.