NOMA-Based Hybrid Satellite-UAV-Terrestrial Networks for Beyond 5G Maritime Internet of Things

04/08/2021
by   Xinran Fang, et al.
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Current fifth-generation (5G) networks do not cover the maritime area, causing difficulties in developing maritime Internet of Things (IoT). To tackle this problem, we establish a nearshore network by collaboratively using on-shore terrestrial base stations (TBSs) and tethered unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). These TBSs and UAVs form virtual clusters in a user-centric manner. Within each virtual cluster, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is adopted for agilely including various maritime IoT devices, which are usually sparsely distributed on the vast ocean. The nearshore network also shares spectrum with marine satellites. In such a NOMA-based hybrid satellite-UAV-terrestrial network, interference among different network segments, different clusters, as well as different users occurs. We thereby formulate a joint power allocation problem to maximize the sum rate of the network. Different from existing studies, we use large-scale channel state information (CSI) only for optimization to reduce system overhead. The large-scale CSI is obtained by using the position information of maritime IoT devices. The problem is non-convex with intractable nonlinear constraints. We tackle these difficulties by adopting the relaxation methods, max-min optimization and the successive convex approximation technique. An iterative power allocation algorithm is accordingly proposed, which is shown effective for coverage enhancement by simulations. This shows the potential of NOMA-based hybrid satellite-UAV-terrestrial networks for maritime on-demand coverage.

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