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Wireless Communications with Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): From Wi-Fi to 5G
Evgenii VINOGRADOV
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and Sofie POLLIN
KU Leuven, Department of Electrical Engineering - ESAT, Leuven Belgium
Abstract. The growing use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for various
applications requires ubiquitous and reliable connectivity for safe control and data
exchange between these devices and ground terminals. Depending on the
application, UAV-mounted wireless equipment can either be an aerial user
equipment (AUE) that co-exists with the terrestrial users, or it can be a part of
wireless infrastructure providing a range of services to the ground users. For
instance, AUE can be used for real-time search and rescue and Aerial Base Station
(ABS) can enhance coverage, capacity, and energy efficiency of wireless networks.
We will start with discussing the open challenges of communication with UAVs. To
give answers to the posed questions, we will focus on the UAV communication
basics, providing the channel modeling background and giving guidelines on how
various channel models should be used. Next, theoretical, simulation- and
measurement-based approaches to address the key challenges for AUE usage will
be presented. Moreover, we will provide a comprehensive overview on how UAV-
mounted equipment (e.g. ABS) can be used as a part of the communication network.
Based on the theoretical analysis, we will show how various network parameters
(for example coverage area of ABSs, power efficiency, or user localization error)
can be optimized. Finally, we will discuss how to ensure the safe use of UAVs via
various RF-based techniques for detecting the presence of UAVs in the airspace
(including Machine Learning and Passive Coherent Location techniques).
Keywords. UAV, channel modeling, air-to-ground channel, aerial communication,
5G, mmWave, cellular
1. Tutorial Focus
1.1. Objectives
The main goal of this tutorial is to give a complete overview of the main scenarios
(aerial user equipment (AUE) and aerial base station (ABS)), channel and performance
models, compare them, and discuss open research points. This tutorial for wireless
communication with UAVs will give a comprehensive overview of the research done
until now and depicts a comprehensive picture to foster new ideas and solutions while
avoiding duplication of past works.
The participants will learn:
• the main air-to-ground and air-to-air channel modeling approaches and
how to choose the appropriate model according to the targeted goal,
• the theoretical, simulation and measurement based approaches to estimate
the performance of UAV-enabled communication networks for multiple
frequency bands,
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Corresponding Author E-mail: Evgenii.vinogradov@kuleuven.be. Intelligent Environments 2019
A. Muñoz et al. (Eds.)
© 2019 The authors and IOS Press.
This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms
of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0).
doi:10.3233/AISE190015
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Intelligent Environments 2019
Workshop Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Environments
- Title
- Intelligent Environments 2019
- Subtitle
- Workshop Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Environments
- Authors
- Andrés Muñoz
- Sofia Ouhbi
- Wolfgang Minker
- Loubna Echabbi
- Miguel Navarro-CĂa
- Publisher
- IOS Press BV
- Date
- 2019
- Language
- German
- License
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-1-61499-983-6
- Size
- 16.0 x 24.0 cm
- Pages
- 416
- Category
- Tagungsbände