“…The channel coefficients are defined as follows: i) h P T,U i refers to the channel parameters between the PU's transmitter and i th UAV; ii) h U i ,P R denotes the parameters between the i th UAV and the PU's receiver; iii) h S,U i and h U i ,F , respectively denote the channel coefficients between the Source and the i th UAV, and between the i th UAV and the fusion center. For the sake of simplicity, the instant Channel State Information (CSI) are assumed to be available for all UAVs following similar works in [30,32,5,3,26] The source of the noise at the receivers is considered as a symmetric normally distributed random variable, denoted by z ∼ CN (0, σ 2 ). Many works such as [24,20,26] optimized the power consumption and nodes' lifetime in this area.…”