Millimeter-Wave UAV Coverage in Urban Environments
| Autor: | Seongjoon Kang, Marco Mezzavilla, Angel Lozano, Giovanni Geraci, William Xia, Sundeep Rangan, Vasilii Semkin, Giuseppe Loianno |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Signal Processing (eess.SP)
Autonomous aerial vehicles Array signal processing FOS: Electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Base stations ComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMS Reflection Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Signal Processing Instruments Urban areas Reflector antennas |
| Zdroj: | 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) |
| Popis: | Comunicació presentada a 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), celebrat del 7 a l'11 de desembre de 2021 a Madrid, Espanya. With growing interest in mmWave connectivity for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), a basic question is whether networks intended for terrestrial service can provide sufficient aerial coverage as well. To assess this possibility in the context of urban environments, extensive system-level simulations are conducted using a generative channel model recently proposed by the authors. It is found that standard downtilted base stations at street level, deployed with typical microcellular densities, can indeed provide satisfactory UAV coverage. Interestingly, this coverage is made possible by a conjunction of antenna sidelobes and strong reflections. As the deployments become sparser, the coverage is only guaranteed at progressively higher UAV altitudes. The incorporation of base stations dedicated to UAV communication, rooftop-mounted and uptilted, would strengthen the coverage provided their density is comparable to that of the standard deployment, and would be instrumental for sparse deployments of the latter. S. Rangan, W. Xia, S. Kang, and M. Mezzavilla were supported by NSF grants 1302336, 1564142, 1547332, and 1824434, NIST, SRC, and the industrial affiliates of NYU WIRELESS. A. Lozano and G. Geraci were supported by ERC grant 694974, by MINECO’s Project RTI2018-101040, by the Junior Leader Fellowship Program from “la Caixa" Banking Foundation, and by the ICREA Academia program. The work of V. Semkin was supported by the Academy of Finland. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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