An assessment of a unmanned aerial vehicle‐based broadcast scenario assuming random terrestrial user locations

IET Optoelectronics

Nicholas Vaiopoulos¹  Harilaos G. Sandalidis¹  Alexander Vavoulas¹ 

[1] Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics University of Thessaly Lamia Greece;

关键词: probability;    autonomous aerial vehicles;    radio links;    optical links;    telecommunication network reliability;    relay networks (telecommunication);   

DOI  :  10.1049/ote2.12009

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Abstract With the advent of the new decade, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will increasingly play an active role mainly as broadband transmission relays for broadcast applications. In the present study, we consider a feasible network where a transmitter, mounted on a hill, is connected through an optical wireless link with a UAV, hovering at a certain height above the earth. The UAV provides coverage over a circular geographic area and communicates through a radio frequency (RF) link with a ground user who is randomly located inside the circular region. In this context, a mixed optical/RF link is established where the performance is thoroughly investigated in terms of the outage probability. We assume that the optical wireless link is affected by a plethora of deteriorating factors, including the presence of fog, or the atmospheric scintillation, while the RF link is subject to small‐scale fading. Depending on the appearance of fog or turbulence, two different problems occur with a different mathematical formulation. For both cases, we extract closed‐form expressions for the signal‐to‐noise ratio statistics, which are the critical component towards determining the outage probability. Then, the impact of the impairments for some typical parameter values is properly depicted in appropriate graphs.

【 授权许可】

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