Energy-efficient UAV communication: A NOMA scheme with resource allocation and trajectory optimization

Huilong Jin, Yucong Zhou, Xiaozi Jin and Shuang Zhang

PLOS ONE, 2024, vol. 19, issue 4, 1-23

Abstract: This work investigates a downlink nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scheme with unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided wireless communication, where a single UAV was regarded as an air base station (ABS) to communicate with multiple ground users. Considering the constraints of velocity and maneuverability, a UAV energy efficiency (EE) model was proposed via collaborative design resource allocation and trajectory optimization. Based on this, an EE maximization problem was formulated to jointly optimize the transmit power of ground users and the trajectory of the UAV. To obtain the optimal solutions, this nonconvex problem was transformed into an equivalent convex optimization problem on the basis of three user clustering algorithms. After several alternating iterations, our proposed algorithms converged quickly. The simulation results show an enhancement in EE with NOMA because our proposed algorithm is nearly 99.6% superior to other OMA schemes.

Date: 2024
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