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In this paper we propose a simulation method using numerical integration, and develop a closed-form link loss model for physical layer channel characterization for non-line of sight (NLOS) ultraviolet (UV) communication systems. The impulse…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ankit Gupta , Mohammad Noshad , Maïté Brandt-Pearce

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained great interest for rapid deployment in both civil and military applications. UAV communication has its own distinctive channel characteristics compared with widely used cellular and satellite…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-24 Aziz Altaf Khuwaja , Yunfei Chen , Nan Zhao , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Paul Dobbins

Integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for surveillance or monitoring applications into fifth generation (5G) New Radio (NR) cellular networks is an intriguing problem that has recently tackled a lot of interest in both academia and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Donatella Darsena , Ivan Iudice , Francesco Verde

Considering the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) three-dimensional (3D) posture, a novel 3D non-stationary geometry-based stochastic model (GBSM) is proposed for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) UAV-to-vehicle (U2V) channels. It consists…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Boyu Hua , Tongtong Zhou , Qiuming Zhu , Kai Mao , Junwei Bao , Weizhi Zhong , Naeem Ahmed

Accurately modelling orbital angular momentum (OAM) mode crosstalk in turbulent environments is challenging yet essential for developing free-space optical systems that employ OAM modes for multiplexing or diversity. Turbulence induces…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-05 Mitchell A. Cox , Steven G. Makoni , Ling Cheng

This paper studies the impact of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wobbling on the coherence time of the wireless channel between UAVs and a ground user equipment (UE), using a Rician multi-path channel model. We consider two different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Morteza Banagar , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Andreas F. Molisch

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have recently found abundant applications in the public and civil domains. To ensure reliable control and navigation, connecting UAVs to controllers via existing cellular network infrastructure, i.e., ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Xianghao Yu , Jun Zhang , Robert Schober , Khaled B. Letaief

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) assisted terahertz (THz) wireless communications have been expected to play a vital role in the next generation of wireless networks. UAVs can serve as either repeaters or data collectors within the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 Da Li , Peian Li , Jiabiao Zhao , Jianjian Liang , Jiacheng Liu , Guohao Liu , Yuanshuai Lei , Wenbo Liu , Jianqin Deng , Fuyong Liu , Jianjun Ma

The use of optical spatial modulation (OSM), which has been recently emerged as a power and bandwidth efficient pulsed modulation technique for indoor optical wireless communication, is proposed as a simple, low-complexity means of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Kostas P. Peppas , P. Takis Mathiopoulos

In this work, we address the trajectory optimization of a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) using free space optical communication (FSOC). Here, we focus on maximizing the flight time of the UAV by considering practical constraints…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Ju-Hyung Lee , Ki-Hong Park , Young-Chai Ko , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Free-space optical (FSO) communication can be subject to various types of distortion and loss as the signal propagates through non-uniform media. In experiment and simulation, we demonstrate that the state of polarization and degree of…

In this paper, we investigate video signal transmission through an FPGA-based free-space optical (FSO) communication system prototype. We use a channel emulator that models the turbulence, scintillation, and power attenuation of the FSO…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Hong-Bae Jeon , Hyung-Joo Moon , Soo-Min Kim , Do-Hoon Kwon , Joon-Woo Lee , Sang-Kook Han , Chan-Byoung Chae

According to the physical phenomena of atmospheric channels and wave propagation, performance of wireless communication systems can be optimized by simply adjusting its parameters. This way is more economically favorable than consuming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-23 Mohammad Ali Amirabadi , Vahid Tabataba Vakili

Terrestrial free-space optical (FSO) communication systems, while designed to operate on large unlicensed optical bandwidths, are fundamentally power-constrained due to stringent eye-safety regulations. Moreover, channel fluctuations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Himani Verma , Kamal Singh , Ranjan K. Mallik

In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), particularly for small UAVs, due to their affordable prices, ease of availability, and ease of operability. Existing and future applications…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-08 Wahab Khawaja , Ismail Guvenc , David Matolak , Uwe-Carsten Fiebig , Nicolas Schneckenberger

In recent years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been utilized as effective platforms for carrying Wi-Fi Access Points (APs) and cellular Base Stations (BSs), enabling low-cost, agile, and flexible wireless networks with high Quality…

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Weak turbulence is commonly modeled using the log-normal distribution. Our experimental results show that this distribution fails to capture irradiance fluctuations in this regime. The Gamma-Gamma model is shown to be more accurate.

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Carmen Álvarez Roa , Yunus Can Gültekin , Vincent van Vliet , Menno van den Hout , Chigo Okonkwo , Alex Alvarado

Compared with line-of-sight (LOS) communication, nonline-of-sight (NLOS) underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) systems have garnered extensive attention because of their heightened suitability for the intricate and dynamic…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-01-23 Peng Yue , XiangRu Wang , Shan Xu , YunLong Li

Free-space optical (FSO) communication is emerging as a key backhaul technology for next-generation vertical heterogeneous networks (VHetNets), whose architecture spans satellites, high-altitude platform stations (HAPS), unmanned aerial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Eylem Erdogan , Mohammed Elamassie , Ibrahim Altunbas , Gunes Karabulut Kurt , Murat Uysal , Halim Yanikomeroglu

We design an optical feedback network making use of machine learning techniques and demonstrate via simulations its ability to correct for the effects of turbulent propagation on optical modes. This artificial neural network scheme only…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-22 Sanjaya Lohani , Ryan T. Glasser