In order to provide an increased capacity, throughput and QoS guarantee for terrestrial users in emergency scenarios, a low-medium-altitude aerial platform based time-division-duplex long term evolution (TD-LTE) system referred to as Aerial LTE, is presented in this paper. Additionally a power-efficient radio resource allocation mechanism is proposed for both the Aerial LTE downlink and uplink, which is modeled as a cooperative game. Our simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm imposes an attractive tradeoff between the achievable throughput and the power consumption while ensuring fairness among users.
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