Height-Fixed UAV Enabled Energy-Efficient Data Collection in RIS-Aided Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor nodes (SNs) are usually energy-limited, a low energy efficiency of SN may be caused by the occlusion of transmission link in the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled data collection. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) provide potential communication opportunities by reflecti...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on wireless communications Vol. 22; no. 11; p. 1
Main Authors: Liu, Jianghui, Zhang, Hongtao
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Published: New York IEEE 01.11.2023
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Abstract Wireless sensor nodes (SNs) are usually energy-limited, a low energy efficiency of SN may be caused by the occlusion of transmission link in the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled data collection. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) provide potential communication opportunities by reflecting and enhancing the signal, thus increasing SNs' energy efficiency. This paper investigates energy-efficient data collection aided by N RIS elements, where a height-fixed and flight time-constrained UAV is considered as the collector, a tractable air-to-ground channel model is established considering the cascaded RIS channel and time-varying trajectory of UAV, and energy consumption of SNs is minimized. Specifically, coupling two intractable fourth-order moment variables, the air-to-ground channel model is processed into an easily computable expression through the Gamma function. Furthermore, based on the proposed two RIS deployment schemes, maximum energy consumption of SNs minimization problem is formulated as a non-convex mixed-integer nonlinear programming (NMNP) problem with optimization of UAV trajectory and SNs wake-up schedules. Additionally, through the slack technique and Taylor expansion, the NMNP problem is decoupled as linear programming and quadratically constrained quadratic programming, and an effective algorithm is designed to obtain the sub-optimal solution. Simulations prove the validity of our algorithm and RIS deployment insights are given for SNs energy saving.
AbstractList Wireless sensor nodes (SNs) are usually energy-limited, a low energy efficiency of SN may be caused by the occlusion of transmission link in the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled data collection. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) provide potential communication opportunities by reflecting and enhancing the signal, thus increasing SNs’ energy efficiency. This paper investigates energy-efficient data collection aided by [Formula Omitted] RIS elements, where a height-fixed and flight time-constrained UAV is considered as the collector, a tractable air-to-ground channel model is established considering the cascaded RIS channel and time-varying trajectory of UAV, and maximum energy consumption of SNs is minimized. Specifically, coupling two intractable fourth-order moment variables, the air-to-ground channel model is processed into an easily computable expression through the Gamma function. Furthermore, based on the proposed two RIS deployment schemes, maximum energy consumption of SNs minimization problem is formulated as a non-convex mixed-integer nonlinear programming (NMNP) problem with optimization of UAV trajectory and SNs wake-up schedules. Additionally, through the slack technique and Taylor expansion, the NMNP problem is decoupled as linear programming and quadratically constrained quadratic programming, and an effective algorithm is designed to obtain the sub-optimal solution. Simulations prove the validity of our algorithm and RIS deployment insights are given for SNs energy saving.
Wireless sensor nodes (SNs) are usually energy-limited, a low energy efficiency of SN may be caused by the occlusion of transmission link in the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled data collection. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) provide potential communication opportunities by reflecting and enhancing the signal, thus increasing SNs' energy efficiency. This paper investigates energy-efficient data collection aided by N RIS elements, where a height-fixed and flight time-constrained UAV is considered as the collector, a tractable air-to-ground channel model is established considering the cascaded RIS channel and time-varying trajectory of UAV, and energy consumption of SNs is minimized. Specifically, coupling two intractable fourth-order moment variables, the air-to-ground channel model is processed into an easily computable expression through the Gamma function. Furthermore, based on the proposed two RIS deployment schemes, maximum energy consumption of SNs minimization problem is formulated as a non-convex mixed-integer nonlinear programming (NMNP) problem with optimization of UAV trajectory and SNs wake-up schedules. Additionally, through the slack technique and Taylor expansion, the NMNP problem is decoupled as linear programming and quadratically constrained quadratic programming, and an effective algorithm is designed to obtain the sub-optimal solution. Simulations prove the validity of our algorithm and RIS deployment insights are given for SNs energy saving.
Author Zhang, Hongtao
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SubjectTerms air-to-ground channel model
Algorithms
Autonomous aerial vehicles
Data collection
Energy consumption
Energy efficiency
Energy limitation
Energy-efficient data collection
Fading channels
Flight time
Gamma function
Linear programming
Mixed integer
Nonlinear programming
Occlusion
Optimization
Quadratic programming
RIS-aided wireless sensor networks
Taylor series
tracjectory optimization
Trajectories
Trajectory
unmanned aerial vehicle
Unmanned aerial vehicles
Wireless communication
Wireless sensor networks
Title Height-Fixed UAV Enabled Energy-Efficient Data Collection in RIS-Aided Wireless Sensor Networks
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