Research Article

Efficient Placement of an Aerial Relay Drone for Throughput Maximization

Table 1

System and simulation parameters.

Simulation parametersSystem and algorithm parameters

Subarea ,Carrier frequency2 GHz
Number of ground usersNoise power-120 dBm
Max. GBs transmit powerSignal-to-noise thresholdSNR35 dB
Max. UAV transmit powerPSO population size50
Total UAV bandwidth50 MHzMax # of iterations of PSO50
Total GBs bandwidth100,75 MHzEnvironment parameters9.6, 0.28
Base station location(7000,500)Environment parameters1, 20