Uniqueness of the local maximum of the aerial-base-station coverage function

Let γ\gamma be a QoS requirement and let fcf_c be an operating frequency. For the propagation environments whose parameters are listed in Table 1, define

Γ(α)=10γ(AP(α)+B)101+α2,\Gamma(\alpha) = \frac{10^{\frac{\gamma-(A P(\alpha)+B)}{10}}}{1+\alpha^2},

where α[0,]\alpha\in[0,\infty] and P(α)P(\alpha) is the propagation-model function. Uniqueness conjecture. For any γ\gamma and fcf_c, if a local maximum exists for Γ(α)\Gamma(\alpha), then it is the only local maximum of Γ(α)\Gamma(\alpha) on [0,][0,\infty] for each of the listed propagation environments. The uniqueness of this maximum would justify selecting the optimal elevation-to-coverage-radius ratio by one-dimensional maximization of Γ(α)\Gamma(\alpha), although the statement is presented without a proof in the source.

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R. Irem Bor Yaliniz, Amr El-Keyi and Halim Yanikomeroglu, “Efficient 3-D Placement of an Aerial Base Station in Next Generation Cellular Networks”, arXiv:1603.00300 (2016).

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