OUTAGE PROBABILITY ANALYSIS OF ENERGY HARVESTING UAV SELECTION

Abstract

This paper analyzes reliability performance of an UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles)- aided relaying system where only one UAV among multiple UAVs, all capable of harvesting energy from radio frequency signals, is selected as a relay. To this end, a precise closed-form
outage probability formula is first derived. Then, Monte-Carlo simulations are conducted to validate the proposed formula. Finally, various results are provided to illustrate the impact of key operation parameters on the outage performance of the UAV selection.