Low Altitude Air-to-Ground Channel Characterization in LTE Network
(2019) 13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2019- Abstract
Low altitude unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided applications are promising in the future generation communication systems. In this paper, a recently conducted measurement campaign for characterizing the low-altitude air-to-ground (A2G) channel in a typical Long Term Evolution (LTE) network is introduced. Five horizontal flights at the heights of 15, 30, 50, 75, and 100 m are applied, respectively. The realtime LTE downlink signal is recorded by using the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP)-based channel sounder onboard the UAV. Channel impulse responses (CIRs) are extracted from the cell specific signals in the recorded downlink data. To shed lights on the physical propagation mechanisms, propagation graph simulation is... (More)
Low altitude unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided applications are promising in the future generation communication systems. In this paper, a recently conducted measurement campaign for characterizing the low-altitude air-to-ground (A2G) channel in a typical Long Term Evolution (LTE) network is introduced. Five horizontal flights at the heights of 15, 30, 50, 75, and 100 m are applied, respectively. The realtime LTE downlink signal is recorded by using the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP)-based channel sounder onboard the UAV. Channel impulse responses (CIRs) are extracted from the cell specific signals in the recorded downlink data. To shed lights on the physical propagation mechanisms, propagation graph simulation is exploited. Moreover, path loss at different heights are investigated and compared based on the empirical data. The simulated and empirical results provide valuable understanding of the low altitude A2G channels.
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- author
- Cai, Xuesong LU ; Wang, Nanxin ; Rodriguez-Pineiro, Jose ; Yin, Xuefeng ; Yuste, Antonio Perez ; Fan, Wei ; Zhang, Guojin ; Pedersen, Gert Frolund and Tian, Li
- publishing date
- 2019-03
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Air-to-ground channel, channel measurements, graph modeling and path loss, LTE
- host publication
- 13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2019
- article number
- 8740183
- publisher
- IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- conference name
- 13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2019
- conference location
- Krakow, Poland
- conference dates
- 2019-03-31 - 2019-04-05
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85068481653
- ISBN
- 9788890701887
- 9781538681275
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Funding Information: This work was jointly supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant No. 61850410529 and Grant No. 61471268), the project “Propagation channel measurements, parameter estimation and modeling for multiple scenarios” of Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, China Academy of Science, the project funded by China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology under Grant No. 2018ZX03001031-003, Danish Council for independent research under Grant DFF611100525, Virtusuo project funded by Innovation Fund Denmark, and Huawei technologies. Publisher Copyright: © 2019 European Association on Antennas and Propagation.
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- 01cc9dc4-196f-4342-890d-85e4b3ab8f3c
- alternative location
- https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8740183
- date added to LUP
- 2021-11-22 22:44:39
- date last changed
- 2024-09-09 04:12:10
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