Bandwidth, Power and Trajectory Optimization for UAV Base Station Networks with Backhaul and User QoS Constraints

Abstract

This paper considers an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) base station (BS) network with delay-sensitive users and delay-tolerant users on the ground, which have different quality-of-service (QoS) requirements. In the network, the backhaul link connecting the backhaul gateway and the UAV-BS shares the same spectrum with the data links connecting the UAV-BS and the users due to spectrum scarcity. To improve the rate performance of the delay-tolerant users and to guarantee the QoS of the delay-sensitive users, we aim to maximize the minimum rate of the delay-tolerant users by jointly optimizing the bandwidths of the backhaul link and the data links, the transmit power allocated to different users and the trajectory of the UAV-BS, subject to the constraints on UAV mobility, total bandwidth, total transmit power, backhaul data rate, and minimum rate requirements of the delay-sensitive users. Although the formulated problem is non-convex and difficult to solve optimally, we propose an efficient algorithm to find a suboptimal solution to it. Simulation results show that the proposed joint optimization algorithm achieves significantly higher minimum user rate than the benchmark schemes.