TY - JOUR
T1 - Application of NOMA for cellular-connected UAVs
T2 - opportunities and challenges
AU - New, Wee Kiat
AU - Leow, Chee Yen
AU - Navaie, Keivan
AU - Sun, Yanshi
AU - Ding, Zhiguo
N1 - Funding Information:
The work of Z G Ding was supported by the UK EPSRC (Grant No. EP/P009719/2). This work was also supported in part by H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015 (Grant No. 690750) and Ministry of Education Malaysia and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (Grant Nos. 4J416, 08G83, 19H58, 04G37).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s).
PY - 2021/4
Y1 - 2021/4
N2 - Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained considerable interests in numerous civil applications. To push forward its potentials, cellular-connected UAVs have been introduced. Nevertheless, cellular networks face several bottlenecks such as spectrum scarcity and limited concurrent connectivity. To address these issues, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) can be adopted. NOMA provides several opportunities for cellular-connected UAVs such as larger rate region, balanced performance between system throughput and fairness, and reduced delay. In this paper, we review important findings of the related studies, and outline new opportunities and challenges in NOMA for cellular-connected UAVs. Monte-Carlo simulations are then performed to analyze the new aerial user’s (AU)’s signal characteristics and evaluate the NOMA performance for co-existence of AU and terrestrial user (TU). Our preliminary results show that NOMA is a promising strategy for cellular-connected UAVs.
AB - Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained considerable interests in numerous civil applications. To push forward its potentials, cellular-connected UAVs have been introduced. Nevertheless, cellular networks face several bottlenecks such as spectrum scarcity and limited concurrent connectivity. To address these issues, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) can be adopted. NOMA provides several opportunities for cellular-connected UAVs such as larger rate region, balanced performance between system throughput and fairness, and reduced delay. In this paper, we review important findings of the related studies, and outline new opportunities and challenges in NOMA for cellular-connected UAVs. Monte-Carlo simulations are then performed to analyze the new aerial user’s (AU)’s signal characteristics and evaluate the NOMA performance for co-existence of AU and terrestrial user (TU). Our preliminary results show that NOMA is a promising strategy for cellular-connected UAVs.
KW - aerial user rate
KW - cellular-connected UAVs
KW - non-orthogonal multiple access
KW - signal characteristics
KW - terrestrial user rate
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U2 - 10.1007/s11432-020-2986-8
DO - 10.1007/s11432-020-2986-8
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85102066902
SN - 1674-733X
VL - 64
JO - Science China Information Sciences
JF - Science China Information Sciences
IS - 4
M1 - 140302
ER -