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Record W4406091448 · doi:10.1016/j.comcom.2024.108041

UAVs deployment optimization in cell-free aerial communication networks

2025· article· en· W4406091448 on OpenAlex
Aya Ahmed, Cirine Chaieb, Wessam Ajib, Halima Elbiaze, Roch Glitho

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Bibliographic record

VenueComputer Communications · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicUAV Applications and Optimization
Canadian institutionsConcordia UniversityUniversité du Québec à Montréal
FundersFonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies
KeywordsComputer scienceSoftware deploymentComputer networkDistributed computingTelecommunicationsSoftware engineering

Abstract

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This paper tackles the joint problem of user association, channel assignment, UAV placement, and transmit power allocation in cell-free wireless networks. Each user can either be directly connected to a ground base station (GBS) or through UAVs acting as relays. To address this, we formulate the problem mathematically as a mixed-integer non-convex program, to minimize the number of deployed UAVs under data rate requirements and coverage constraints. Since the problem is NP -hard, we propose a model-free algorithm utilizing the deep deterministic policy gradient method to handle UAV deployment and positioning within a continuous space domain. We also propose efficient heuristic and meta-heuristic algorithms for comparison purposes. Simulation results demonstrate the benefits of the cell-free concept in satisfying users and improving the performance of UAV-assisted wireless networks. They also validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms in minimizing the required number of deployed UAVs to meet stringent user requirements.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

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metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.599
Threshold uncertainty score0.749

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Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0020.001
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Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.218
Teacher spread0.209 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it