Joint Resource Allocation and Trajectory Optimization in Multi-Cell UAV and Sidelink Heterogeneous Networks

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and sidelink technology are becoming more and more important in emergency communication. To optimize overall energy efficiency, joint subchannel, transmit power, and multi-UAV trajectory optimization algorithms are examined in a multi-cell heterogeneous network of UAV and sidelink with quality of service (QoS) sensitivity restrictions. To allocate subchannel appropriately in each period, a grouping and matching approach is first developed that can handle the subchannel assignment of multi-cell. Then, successive convex approximation method is used to approximate the non-deterministic polynomial hard problem of power allocation. Taylor expansion approximation method is finally introduced to deal with multi-UAV trajectory optimization. In addition, the complexity analysis is provided and numerical results confirm the optimization methods’ reasonableness.