Title
UAV-Assisted Emergency Communications in Social IoT: A Dynamic Hypergraph Coloring Approach
Abstract
In this article, we address the social-awareness property and unmanned-aerial-vehicle (UAV)-assisted information diffusion in emergency scenarios, where UAVs can disseminate alert messages to a set of terrestrial users within their coverage, and then these users can continuously disseminate the received data packets to their socially connected users in a device-to-device (D2D) multicast manner. In this regard, we have to solve both the dynamic cluster formation and spectrum sharing problems in stochastic environments, since both UAVs and terrestrial users may arrive or depart suddenly. For the cluster formation problem, considering that the data rate of a multicast cluster is determined by the member with the worst link condition, we formulate it as a many-to-one matching game and adopt the rotation-swap algorithm to maximize the expected number of users receiving the alerting messages in each time slot. For the dynamic spectrum sharing problem, aiming at eliminating the interference while minimizing the channel switching cost, we propose a dynamic hypergraph coloring approach to model the cumulative interference and maintain the mutual interference at a low level by exploring a small number of vertices, when the graph is dynamically updated, i.e., the insertion/deletion of vertex/edge. Moreover, we prove some crucial properties, including global stability, convergence, and complexity. Finally, simulation results show that our proposed approach can achieve a better tradeoff among the information diffusion speed, channel switch cost, and complexity.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/JIOT.2020.2988445
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Device-to-device (D2D) multicast,emergency communications,graph theory,matching theory,Social Internet of Things (SIoT),unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
Journal
7
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
8
2327-4662
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bowen Wang13718.85
Yanjing Sun2108.90
Zhi Sun329646.39
Long D. Nguyen4171.94
Trung Q. Duong52911171.22