  In this letter, we study the deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle mounted
Base Stations (UAV-BSs) in multi-UAV cellular networks. We model the multi-UAV
deployment problem as a user satisfaction maximization problem, that is,
maximizing the proportion of served ground users (GUs) that meet a given
minimum data rate requirement. We propose an interference-aware deployment
(IAD) algorithm for serving arbitrarily distributed outdoor GUs. The proposed
algorithm can alleviate the problem of overlapping coverage between adjacent
UAV-BSs to minimize inter-cell interference. Therefore, reducing co-channel
interference between UAV-BSs will improve user satisfaction and ensure that
most GUs can achieve the minimum data rate requirement. Simulation results show
that our proposed IAD outperforms comparative methods by more than 10% in user
satisfaction in high-density environments.

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