AIR-TO-GROUND COMMUNICATIONS BEYOND 5G: THE FORMATION CONTROL OF UAV SWARM

This work proposes a novel air-to-ground communication model consisting of aerial base stations served by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and terrestrial user equipments (UEs) by integrating the technique of coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission with the theory of stochastic geometry. The effective UAV formation control scheme is also developed using the multi-agent system theory to ensure that collaborative UAVs can efficiently reach target spatial positions for mission execution. The case study demonstrates that the proposed UAV formation control strategy for static UEs could efficiently shape the geometric pattern related to our CoMP transmission scheme.