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

Xuesong Cai; Nanxin Wang; Jose Rodriguez-Pineiro; Xuefeng Yin; Antonio Perez Yuste; Wei Fan; Guojin Zhang; Gert Frolund Pedersen; Li Tian

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

Xuesong Cai, Nanxin Wang, Jose Rodriguez-Pineiro, Xuefeng Yin, Antonio Perez Yuste, Wei Fan, Guojin Zhang, Gert Frolund Pedersen, Li Tian

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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 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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2019
Publisher	IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9788890701887
ISBN (Print)	9781538681275
Publication status	Published - 2019 Mar
Externally published	Yes
Event	13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2019 - Krakow, Poland Duration: 2019 Mar 31 → 2019 Apr 5

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Conference	13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2019
Country/Territory	Poland
City	Krakow
Period	2019/03/31 → 2019/04/05

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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.

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© 2019 European Association on Antennas and Propagation.

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Communication Systems
Telecommunications

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Air-to-ground channel
channel measurements
graph modeling and path loss
LTE

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Cai, X., Wang, N., Rodriguez-Pineiro, J., Yin, X., Yuste, A. P., Fan, W., Zhang, G., Pedersen, G. F., & Tian, L. (2019). Low Altitude Air-to-Ground Channel Characterization in LTE Network. In 13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2019 Article 8740183 IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8740183

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Low Altitude Air-to-Ground Channel Characterization in LTE Network. / Cai, Xuesong; Wang, Nanxin; Rodriguez-Pineiro, Jose et al.
13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2019. IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019. 8740183.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Paper in conference proceeding › peer-review

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

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