Cognitive Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Aided Human Bond Communication System: Modeling and Performance Analysis

Abstract

Effective networking over wireless media has become extremely essential today as communication between massive Internet of things (IoT) devices is on an increase, thereby leading to a limited spectrum resource for utilisation. Specifically, for healthcare infrastructure in a remote or critical situation, providing uninterrupted communication between the macro base station and IoT devices or user nodes is imperative. However, owing to their limited spectral capacity, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)-based networks can provide an efficient solution and utilise both licensed and unlicensed bands for communication among users or devices. In this paper, our focus is on cache-enabled cognitive networking for secondary users (SUs) that accredits precise communication delivery for critical healthcare systems that are performed by the cognitive UAV (CUAV). In addition, we develop a caching strategy wherein a CUAV is capable of caching relevant information from high-power (HP) and moderate-power (MP) devices in its local and cloud storage by applying a non-orthogonal multiple-access method. In the downlink scenario, the CUAV proactively transmits the requested HP and MP information to the designated SUs considering this entire model over two states, namely effectual state and interference state, which we can realise by any presence or absence of interference. To maximise this system’s energy efficiency, we formulate an optimisation problem to minimise the transmission power and satisfy the target performance in terms of throughput for SUs. We solve the optimisation issue using the Lagrangian approach and the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions. In all simulations, the energy efficiency during the effectual state renders an average performance of approximately 400% better than that of the interference state.