An Adaptive UAV Scheduling Process to Address Dynamic Mobile Network Demand Efficiently

Benefiting from high flexibility and probability of line-of-sight, deploying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV s) as aerial access points has emerged as a promising solution for ensuring reliable wireless connectivity in crowded events. This paper introduces a UAV scheduling process adaptive to dynamic mobile network demand, including three phases. In the sensing phase, the user distribution is sensed, and user number thresholds are set to determine whether UAV assistance is needed. The planning phase presents an enhanced mean shift algorithm to find suitable locations to deploy UAVs with a dynamic bandwidth derived from the user distribution, the UAV's maximum capacity, and the UAV's maximum throughput. The deploying phase dispatches and recalls UAV s based on planning results. Comprehensive simulation experiments are conducted on OMNeT ++ using real-world data. Results show that the proposed process shows great adaptivity, with an efficiency increase of 18.7% and a fairness increase of 28.9 % compared to the existing related works on average.