Recovery of UAV Swarm-enabled Collaborative Beamforming in Low-altitude Wireless Networks under Wind Field Disturbances
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| author | Sun, Geng Liu, Chenbang Li, Jiahui Qu, Guannan Liang, Shuang Wang, Jiacheng Zhao, Changyuan Niyato, Dusit |
| author_facet | Sun, Geng Liu, Chenbang Li, Jiahui Qu, Guannan Liang, Shuang Wang, Jiacheng Zhao, Changyuan Niyato, Dusit |
| contents | Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms utilizing collaborative beamforming (CB) in low-altitude wireless networks (LAWN) demonstrate significant potential for enhanced communication range, energy efficiency, and signal directivity through the formation of virtual antenna arrays (VAA). However, environmental disturbances, particularly wind fields, significantly degrade CB performance by introducing positional errors that disrupt beam patterns, thereby compromising transmission reliability. This paper investigates the critical challenge of maintaining CB performance in UAV-based VAAs operating in LAWN under wind field disturbances. We propose a comprehensive framework that models the impact of three distinct wind conditions (constant, shear, and turbulent) on UAV array performance, and formulate a long-term real-time optimization problem to maximize directivity while minimizing maximum sidelobe levels through adaptive excitation current weight adjustments. To address the inherent complexity of this problem, we propose a novel proximal policy optimization algorithm with long short-term memory (LSTM) structure and adaptive learning rate (PPO-LA), which effectively captures temporal patterns in wind field disturbances and enables real-time adaptation without requiring extensive prior training for specific wind conditions. Our simulation results demonstrate that the proposed PPO-LA algorithm successfully recovers degraded CB performance across various wind scenarios, and thus significantly outperforming benchmark algorithms. |
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| spellingShingle | Recovery of UAV Swarm-enabled Collaborative Beamforming in Low-altitude Wireless Networks under Wind Field Disturbances Sun, Geng Liu, Chenbang Li, Jiahui Qu, Guannan Liang, Shuang Wang, Jiacheng Zhao, Changyuan Niyato, Dusit Networking and Internet Architecture Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms utilizing collaborative beamforming (CB) in low-altitude wireless networks (LAWN) demonstrate significant potential for enhanced communication range, energy efficiency, and signal directivity through the formation of virtual antenna arrays (VAA). However, environmental disturbances, particularly wind fields, significantly degrade CB performance by introducing positional errors that disrupt beam patterns, thereby compromising transmission reliability. This paper investigates the critical challenge of maintaining CB performance in UAV-based VAAs operating in LAWN under wind field disturbances. We propose a comprehensive framework that models the impact of three distinct wind conditions (constant, shear, and turbulent) on UAV array performance, and formulate a long-term real-time optimization problem to maximize directivity while minimizing maximum sidelobe levels through adaptive excitation current weight adjustments. To address the inherent complexity of this problem, we propose a novel proximal policy optimization algorithm with long short-term memory (LSTM) structure and adaptive learning rate (PPO-LA), which effectively captures temporal patterns in wind field disturbances and enables real-time adaptation without requiring extensive prior training for specific wind conditions. Our simulation results demonstrate that the proposed PPO-LA algorithm successfully recovers degraded CB performance across various wind scenarios, and thus significantly outperforming benchmark algorithms. |
| title | Recovery of UAV Swarm-enabled Collaborative Beamforming in Low-altitude Wireless Networks under Wind Field Disturbances |
| topic | Networking and Internet Architecture |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08507 |