Abstract
Recently, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications have drawn significant research interests. Meanwhile, cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is proposed as a promising technology to achieve the ultimate performance limits. In this paper, we investigate the UAV communication with wireless power transfer (WPT) aided CF massive MIMO systems, where the harvested energy (HE) from the downlink WPT is used to support both uplink data and pilot transmission. Take hardware impairments of UAV into account, novel closed-form downlink HE and uplink spectral efficiency (SE) expressions are derived. UAV communications with small cell (SC) and cellular massive MIMO enabled WPT systems are also considered for comparison. Our results reveal that CF massive MIMO achieves two and four times higher 95%-likely uplink SE than the ones of SC and cellular massive MIMO, respectively. To this end, SE is a concave function of the time-splitting fraction, and the optimal time-splitting fraction for maximizing SE is determined by the altitude and hardware impairment factor of the UAV.
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