Research Article

Dynamic Contract Incentives Mechanism for Traffic Offloading in Multi-UAV Networks

Table 1

Key notations.

SymbolPhysical meaning

Number of UAVs
UAV’s channel ( to ) gain
, UAV’s transmit power and accept power
, UAV’s received power in stage 1 and stage 2
, , UAV’s per cost, transmission cost, total cost
UAV’s private information
, UAV’s private information in stage 1 and stage 2
, Probability density function of
, Probability distribution function of
UAV’s energy consumed by movement
The reward of UAV
,UAV’s reward in stage 1 and stage 2
, , UAV’s total, stage 1 and stage 2 utility
Noise power
Profit per transmission capacity
BS’s total profit
, , BS’s total, stage 1 and stage 2 expected utility