6G Enabled UAVs: UE or Base Station?

This thesis proposes and studies an algorithm to assess the issue of changing the role of a UAV inside a network, from User Equipment (UAV-UE) to Base Station (UAV-BS). Despite the great advantages of the use of drones as BS, there are challenges that cannot be ignored, such as the backhaul capacity constraint that, for different amounts of traffic, might be an issue. For this reason, the algorithm developed in the proposed simulator takes into account the backhaul constraint. The main focus of this thesis is on a static Matlab simulator, working in an urban, noise-limited scenario, with two different kinds of traffic generated by UEs, to assess the performance of the algorithm compared with a benchmark, which is the same scenario, without the implementation of UAV-BS.