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Empirical Low-Altitude Air-to-Ground Spatial Channel Characterization for Cellular Networks Connectivity

Cai, Xuesong LU ; Izydorczyk, Tomasz ; Rodriguez-Pineiro, Jose ; Kovacs, Istvan Zsolt ; Wigard, Jeroen ; Tavares, Fernando M.L. and Mogensen, Preben E. (2021) In IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 39(10). p.2975-2991
Abstract

Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have recently attracted a surge of interest in both academia and industry. Understanding the air-to-ground (A2G) propagation channels is essential to enable reliable and/or high-throughput communications for UAVs and protect the ground user equipments (UEs). In this contribution, a recently conducted measurement campaign for the A2G channels is introduced. A uniform circular array (UCA) with 16 antenna elements was employed to collect the downlink signals of two different Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks, at the heights of 0-40m in three different, namely rural, urban and industrial scenarios. The channel impulse responses (CIRs) have been extracted from the received data, and the... (More)

Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have recently attracted a surge of interest in both academia and industry. Understanding the air-to-ground (A2G) propagation channels is essential to enable reliable and/or high-throughput communications for UAVs and protect the ground user equipments (UEs). In this contribution, a recently conducted measurement campaign for the A2G channels is introduced. A uniform circular array (UCA) with 16 antenna elements was employed to collect the downlink signals of two different Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks, at the heights of 0-40m in three different, namely rural, urban and industrial scenarios. The channel impulse responses (CIRs) have been extracted from the received data, and the spatial, including angular, parameters of the multipath components in individual channels were estimated according to a high-resolution-parameter-estimation (HRPE) principle. Based on the HRPE results, clusters of multipath components were further identified. Finally, comprehensive spatial channel characteristics were investigated in the composite and cluster levels at different heights in the three scenarios.

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air-to-ground, and clusters, angular characteristics, cellular networks, spatial channels, UAV
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IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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17 pages
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IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
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10.1109/JSAC.2021.3088715
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Funding Information: Manuscript received October 9, 2020; revised February 22, 2021; accepted April 11, 2021. Date of publication June 14, 2021; date of current version September 16, 2021. This work was supported in part by Nokia and in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under Grant 61971313. (Corresponding author: Xuesong Cai.) Xuesong Cai was with the Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark. He is now with the Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark and also with the Department of Electrical and Information Technology, Lund University, 22100 Lund, Sweden (e-mail: xuesong.cai@ieee.org). Publisher Copyright: © 1983-2012 IEEE.
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  author       = {{Cai, Xuesong and Izydorczyk, Tomasz and Rodriguez-Pineiro, Jose and Kovacs, Istvan Zsolt and Wigard, Jeroen and Tavares, Fernando M.L. and Mogensen, Preben E.}},
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