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Impact of an Interfering Node on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Communications
Unlike terrestrial communications, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
communications have some advantages such as the line-of-sight (LoS) environment
and flexible mobility. However, the interference will be still inevitable. In
this paper, we analyze the effect of an interfering node on the UAV
communications by considering the LoS probability and different channel fading
for LoS and non-line-of-sight (NLoS) links, which are affected by the elevation
angle of the communication link. We then derive a closed-form outage
probability in the presence of an interfering node for all the possible
scenarios and environments of main and interference links. After discussing the
impacts of transmitting and interfering node parameters on the outage
probability, we show the existence of the optimal height of the UAV that
minimize the outage probability. We also show the NLoS environment can be
better than the LoS environment if the average received power of the
interference is more dominant than that of the transmitting signal on UAV
communications. Finally, we analyze the outage probability for the case of
multiple interfering nodes using stochastic geometry and the outage probability
of the single interfering node case, and show the effect of the interfering
node density on the optimal height of the UAV.Comment: 12 pages, 10 figures, this paper has been submitted in IEEE
Transactions on Vehicular Technology. arXiv admin note: substantial text
overlap with arXiv:1806.0984
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with Underlaid Device-to-Device Communications: Performance and Tradeoffs
In this paper, the deployment of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a flying
base station used to provide on the fly wireless communications to a given
geographical area is analyzed. In particular, the co-existence between the UAV,
that is transmitting data in the downlink, and an underlaid device-todevice
(D2D) communication network is considered. For this model, a tractable
analytical framework for the coverage and rate analysis is derived. Two
scenarios are considered: a static UAV and a mobile UAV. In the first scenario,
the average coverage probability and the system sum-rate for the users in the
area are derived as a function of the UAV altitude and the number of D2D users.
In the second scenario, using the disk covering problem, the minimum number of
stop points that the UAV needs to visit in order to completely cover the area
is computed. Furthermore, considering multiple retransmissions for the UAV and
D2D users, the overall outage probability of the D2D users is derived.
Simulation and analytical results show that, depending on the density of D2D
users, optimal values for the UAV altitude exist for which the system sum-rate
and the coverage probability are maximized. Moreover, our results also show
that, by enabling the UAV to intelligently move over the target area, the total
required transmit power of UAV while covering the entire area, is minimized.
Finally, in order to provide a full coverage for the area of interest, the
tradeoff between the coverage and delay, in terms of the number of stop points,
is discussed.Comment: accepted in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication
Ultra Reliable UAV Communication Using Altitude and Cooperation Diversity
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that serve as aerial base stations
is expected to become predominant in the next decade. However, in order for
this technology to unfold its full potential it is necessary to develop a
fundamental understanding of the distinctive features of air-to-ground (A2G)
links. As a contribution in this direction, this paper proposes a generic
framework for the analysis and optimization of the A2G systems. In contrast to
the existing literature, this framework incorporates both height-dependent path
loss exponent and small-scale fading, and unifies a widely used
ground-to-ground channel model with that of A2G for analysis of large-scale
wireless networks. We derive analytical expressions for the optimal UAV height
that minimizes the outage probability of a given A2G link. Moreover, our
framework allows us to derive a height-dependent closed-form expression and a
tight lower bound for the outage probability of an \textit{A2G cooperative
communication} network. Our results suggest that the optimal location of the
UAVs with respect to the ground nodes does not change by the inclusion of
ground relays. This enables interesting insights in the deployment of future
A2G networks, as the system reliability could be adjusted dynamically by adding
relaying nodes without requiring changes in the position of the corresponding
UAVs
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