Joint Spectrum and Airspace Resource Optimization for Low-altitude Wireless Network

Abstract

Low-altitude wireless networks have emerged as a promising platform for enabling the safe and efficient operation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, due to the limited spectrum and airspace resources, it is challenging to efficiently accomplish UAV flight tasks without collisions. In this paper, we propose a sequential framework with two coupled stages that coordinates spectrum allocation and airspace planning to construct efficient low-altitude air corridors. Specifically, the low-altitude airspace is discretized into a set of digital grids, where obstacles are modeled as impermeable units. Then, we formulate an optimization problem to minimize the total traversal cost of air corridors, which is challenging to solve due to the tight coupling between spectrum allocation and path planning.Therefore, we first design a constrained Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) ascending auction mechanism to allocate the spectrum resources. Then, we propose a joint spectrum and airspace resource allocation algorithm to minimize the total traversal cost of air corridors. Finally, simulation results show that the proposed algorithms achieve lower total costs than the baseline algorithms.