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

Xuesong Cai; Nanxin Wang; José  Rodríguez-Piñeiro; Xuefeng Yin; Antonio  Pérez Yuste; Wei Fan; Guojin Zhang; Gert Frølund Pedersen; Li  Tian

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

Xuesong Cai, Nanxin Wang, José Rodríguez-Piñeiro, Xuefeng Yin, Antonio Pérez Yuste, Wei Fan, Guojin Zhang, Gert Frølund Pedersen, Li Tian

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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 100m 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)
Number of pages	5
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	20 Jun 2019
Article number	8740183
ISBN (Print)	978-1-5386-8127-5
ISBN (Electronic)	978-88-907018-8-7
Publication status	Published - 20 Jun 2019
Event	The 13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation - Krakow, Krakow, Poland Duration: 31 Mar 2019 → 5 Apr 2019 https://www.eucap2019.org/

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Conference	The 13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation
Location	Krakow
Country/Territory	Poland
City	Krakow
Period	31/03/2019 → 05/04/2019
Internet address	https://www.eucap2019.org/

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

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