Abstract
To address the spectrum shortage issue, the technology of sharing the unlicensed spectrum resource has been developed for terrestrial wireless networks, e.g., the New Radio Unlicensed technology. Recently, due to the limitation of terrestrial wireless networks, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been proposed to improve the coverage for users. Hence, the combination of the unlicensed spectrum band technology and the UAV communication can fulfill the requirements of offering 3-D coverage while improving the spectrum efficiency. In this paper, we investigate the terrestrial and UAV heterogeneous network (HetNet), where both the terrestrial base stations and aerial base stations implement the random mode selection procedure to use either the licensed or unlicensed spectrum band. Based on stochastic geometry, we develop a tractable mathematical framework to characterize the medium access probability and the overall coverage probability. The accuracy of the analytical evaluations is validated by simulations. Our results show that the incorporation of the licensed and unlicensed spectrum band by using the mode selection scheme can improve the overall network performance, compared with the performance of the 3-D HetNet operating in the licensed spectrum band only. Furthermore, mode selection of the aerial network plays the dominant role in improving the overall coverage probability, and the mode selection probability (i.e., the probability of switching to use the unlicensed spectrum band) has to be selected carefully to maximize the overall coverage probability.
Highlights
W ITH the rapid growth of applications and mobile devices in future communications, the scarcity of licensed spectrum bands has become one of the major problems for the generation of cellular networks
We focus on evaluating the overall coverage performance for a 3-D heterogeneous network (HetNet) constituting of terrestrial base stations (TBSs) and aerial base stations (ABSs) in the licensed and unlicensed spectrum band
X − yu,ζk,i 2 − H 2 containing the type 2 BSs whose links between themselves and the i-th type 6 BS are in NLoS conditions; we present the probability density function (PDF) and the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the distance from the typical ground user equipments (UEs) to the associated BS in Lemma 1, which are important in determining the medium access probability (MAP) and the conditional coverage probability
Summary
W ITH the rapid growth of applications and mobile devices in future communications, the scarcity of licensed spectrum bands has become one of the major problems for the generation of cellular networks. We focus on evaluating the overall coverage performance for a 3-D HetNet constituting of terrestrial base stations (TBSs) and ABSs in the licensed and unlicensed spectrum band This considered network can be deployed to improve the coverage for RAN congestion scenario, where the communication demand from users is massive and the spectrum resources are limited. Both the TBS and ABS perform the mode selection, i.e., switch to operate in the unlicensed spectrum band with a certain probability. For such a complicated scenario, to ease the analysis, we classify the overall network into different types as follows.
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