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Drone Mobile Networks: Performance Analysis Under 3D Tractable Mobility Models
Reliable wireless communication networks are a significant but challenging mission for
post-disaster areas and hotspots in the era of information. However, with the maturity of unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV) technology, drone mobile networks have attracted considerable attention as a prominent solution for facilitating critical communications. This paper provides a system-level analysis for drone mobile
networks on a finite three-dimensional (3D) space. Our aim is to explore the fundamental performance limits
of drone mobile networks taking into account practical considerations. Most existing works on mobile drone
networks use simplified mobility models (e.g., fixed height), but the movement of the drones in practice is
significantly more complicated, which leads to difficulties in analyzing the performance of the drone mobile
networks. Hence, to tackle this problem, we propose a stochastic geometry-based framework with a number
of different mobility models including a random Brownian motion approach. The proposed framework allows
to circumvent the extremely complex reality model and obtain upper and lower performance bounds for
drone networks in practice. Also, we explicitly consider certain constraints, such as the small-scale fading
characteristics relying on line-of-sight (LOS) and non line-of-sight (NLOS) propagation, and multi-antenna
operations. The validity of the mathematical findings is verified via Monte-Carlo (MC) simulations for
various network settings. In addition, the results reveal some design guidelines and important trends for
the practical deployment of drone networks
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