Unmanned Aerial Vehicles can act as relays in areas with limited infrastructure to support car-to-car communications. Prior studies on UAV-to-car communications showed that the irregularity of the terrains has a significant impact on link quality. Thus, in this paper, we propose a positioning technique that relies on Particle Swarm Optimization to optimize the positioning of a UAV in the vehicular environment by considering the irregularities of the terrains that might hinder Line-of-Sight conditions. The proposed technique takes into account the path loss caused by the terrains.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/ACM 23rd International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT)