Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the resource and interference management problem in a novel scenario where multiple unmanned aerial vehicle base stations (UAV-BSs) provide cellular services to UAV users (UAV-UEs) by reusing both licensed and unlicensed spectrum. Considering the co-existence of terrestrial cellular, WiFi and UAV-BSs, a joint optimization problem is formulated for both subchannel allocation and power control of UAV-UEs over the licensed/unlicensed spectrum in order to maximize the uplink sum-rate of the multi-cell UAV-cellular network. Since the formulated problem is NP-hard, we decompose it into three sub-problems. Specifically, we first use the convex optimization and the Hungarian algorithm to obtain the global optimal of power and subchannel allocations in the licensed spectrum, respectively. Then, we propose a matching game with externalities and coalition game algorithms to obtain the Nash stable of the subchannel allocation in the unlicensed band. Local optimal power assignment in the unlicensed spectrum is obtained using the successive convex approximation (SCA) method. An iterative algorithm is thereby developed to solve the three sub-problems sequentially till reaching convergence. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can improve the network capacity by nearly two times than the Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A).
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