Efficient Placement of an Aerial Relay Drone for Throughput Maximization

Algorithm 1

Efficient Aerial Relay Node Placement using PSO Algorithm.

1: Input:

2: The lower and upper bounds of devision variable , construction coefficients , maximum number of iterations , population size

3: Initialiaztion:

4: ,

5: , , ,

6: For

7: Each particle starts at a random initial position:

8: Each particle starts with zero velocity:

9: Find the cost of particle :

10: Let the best location of particle equals the current location:

11: Let the best cost of particle equals the current cost:

12: If

13:  

14: End if

15: End

16: PSO loop:

17: For

18: For

19: Find the velocity, position and cost for particle :

20: 

21: If

22:  

23:  

24:  Find an efficient placement of a UAV:

    If

25:    

26:  End if

27: End if

28: End

29: End