Multi-UAV Enabled Aerial-Ground Integrated Networks: A Stochastic Geometry Analysis
Shangwei Zhang, Yajie Zhu, Jiajia Liu
Abstract
Multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can function as aerial base stations to provide flexible and reliable communication services for massive ground devices (GDs). It is quite a challenging task to analyze such multi-UAV networks when considering practical mutually exclusive relationships among UAVs. Based on the tools of stochastic geometry, we in this paper develop a theoretical framework for modeling and analyzing aerial networks with UAVs following Matérn hard-core point process (MHCPP). As the tractable probability generating functional (PGFL) of repulsive point processes is unavailable, we employ an approximate approach based on the Poisson point process to analyze the cumulative interference and the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) of a typical GD. By considering both line-of-sight (LOS) and none-line-of-sight (NLOS) communications, we obtain the approximation expressions of the network coverage probability and average rate. Finally, extensive simulation results are presented to validate the efficiency and accuracy of our proposed framework.