UAV relay flight path planning in the presence of jamming signal

Abstract

The flight path of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) relay can significantly affect the performance of the wireless relay communication system. In this paper, we investigate the optimization of the UAV flight path in a wireless relay communication system, when a jamming or interference signal is present. The UAV flight path is optimized to maximize the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR), and the required parameters are estimated. The simulation results show that the proposed method can achieve performance close to an ideal SINR optimization and also highlight the benefits of optimizing the SINR instead of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) when a jamming or interference signal is present.