UAV Deployment and IoT Device Association for Energy-Efficient Data-Gathering in Fixed-Wing Multi-UAV Networks

This work studies the deployment of multiple fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for data-gathering from ground IoT devices and the corresponding device association policy. Each UAV is assumed to follow a circular flight trajectory above its responsible network area in order to stay afloat. The device association and the UAVs’ trajectory centers and radii are jointly optimized to maximize t...