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Low Altitude Air-to-Ground Channel Characterization in LTE Network

Cai, Xuesong LU ; Wang, Nanxin ; Rodriguez-Pineiro, Jose ; Yin, Xuefeng ; Yuste, Antonio Perez ; Fan, Wei ; Zhang, Guojin ; Pedersen, Gert Frolund and Tian, Li (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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Air-to-ground channel, channel measurements, graph modeling and path loss, LTE
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13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2019
article number
8740183
publisher
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
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13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2019
conference location
Krakow, Poland
conference dates
2019-03-31 - 2019-04-05
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  • scopus:85068481653
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9788890701887
9781538681275
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English
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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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  author       = {{Cai, Xuesong and Wang, Nanxin and Rodriguez-Pineiro, Jose and Yin, Xuefeng and Yuste, Antonio Perez and Fan, Wei and Zhang, Guojin and Pedersen, Gert Frolund and Tian, Li}},
  booktitle    = {{13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2019}},
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  title        = {{Low Altitude Air-to-Ground Channel Characterization in LTE Network}},
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  year         = {{2019}},
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