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Hauptverfasser: Chou, Tzu-Hsuan, Michelusi, Nicolo, Love, David J., Krogmeier, James V.
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11912
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author Chou, Tzu-Hsuan
Michelusi, Nicolo
Love, David J.
Krogmeier, James V.
author_facet Chou, Tzu-Hsuan
Michelusi, Nicolo
Love, David J.
Krogmeier, James V.
contents In this paper, a novel approach is proposed to improve the minimum signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio (SINR) among users in non-orthogonal multi-user wireless relay networks, by optimizing the placement of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) relays, relay beamforming, and receive combining. The design is separated into two problems: beamforming-aware UAV placement optimization and transceiver design for minimum SINR maximization. A significant challenge in beamforming-aware UAV placement optimization is the lack of instantaneous channel state information (CSI) prior to deploying UAV relays, making it difficult to derive the beamforming SINR in non-orthogonal multi-user transmission. To address this issue, an approximation of the expected beamforming SINR is derived using the narrow beam property of a massive MIMO base station. Based on this, a UAV placement algorithm is proposed to provide UAV positions that improve the minimum expected beamforming SINR among users, using a difference-of-convex framework. Subsequently, after deploying the UAV relays to the optimized positions, and with estimated CSI available, a joint relay beamforming and receive combining (JRBC) algorithm is proposed to optimize the transceiver to improve the minimum beamforming SINR among users, using a block-coordinate descent approach. Numerical results show that the UAV placement algorithm combined with the JRBC algorithm provides a 4.6 dB SINR improvement over state-of-the-art schemes.
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spellingShingle Joint UAV Placement and Transceiver Design in Multi-User Wireless Relay Networks
Chou, Tzu-Hsuan
Michelusi, Nicolo
Love, David J.
Krogmeier, James V.
Signal Processing
In this paper, a novel approach is proposed to improve the minimum signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio (SINR) among users in non-orthogonal multi-user wireless relay networks, by optimizing the placement of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) relays, relay beamforming, and receive combining. The design is separated into two problems: beamforming-aware UAV placement optimization and transceiver design for minimum SINR maximization. A significant challenge in beamforming-aware UAV placement optimization is the lack of instantaneous channel state information (CSI) prior to deploying UAV relays, making it difficult to derive the beamforming SINR in non-orthogonal multi-user transmission. To address this issue, an approximation of the expected beamforming SINR is derived using the narrow beam property of a massive MIMO base station. Based on this, a UAV placement algorithm is proposed to provide UAV positions that improve the minimum expected beamforming SINR among users, using a difference-of-convex framework. Subsequently, after deploying the UAV relays to the optimized positions, and with estimated CSI available, a joint relay beamforming and receive combining (JRBC) algorithm is proposed to optimize the transceiver to improve the minimum beamforming SINR among users, using a block-coordinate descent approach. Numerical results show that the UAV placement algorithm combined with the JRBC algorithm provides a 4.6 dB SINR improvement over state-of-the-art schemes.
title Joint UAV Placement and Transceiver Design in Multi-User Wireless Relay Networks
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11912