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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found widespread commercial, civilian, and military applications. Wireless communication has always been one of the core technologies for UAV. However, the communication capacity is becoming a bottleneck…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-26 Zhenyu Xiao , Lipeng Zhu , Yanming Liu , Pengfei Yi , Rui Zhang , Xiang-Gen Xia , Robert Schober

The millimeter wave bands are being increasingly considered for wireless communication to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Critical to this undertaking are statistical channel models that describe the distribution of constituent parameters…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-27 William Xia , Sundeep Rangan , Marco Mezzavillla , Angel Lozano , Giovanni Geraci , Vasilii Semkin , Giuseppe Loianno

In most countries, small (<2 kg) and medium (<25 kg) size unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) must fly at low altitude, below 120 m, and with permanent radio communications with ground for control and telemetry. These communications links can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Cesar Briso , Cesar Calvo , Zhuangzhuang Cui , Lei Zhang , Youyun Xu

Based on the geometry and ray tracing (RT) theory, a millimeter wave (mmWave) channel model and parameter computation method for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted air-to-ground (A2G) communications are proposed in this paper. In order…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-29 Qiuming Zhu , Shan Jiang , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Boyu Hua , Kai Mao , Xiaomin Chen , Weizhi Zhong

Millimeter wave (mmWave)-enabled unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm networks (UAVSNs) can utilize a large spectrum of resources to provide low latency and high data transmission rate. Additionally, owing to the short wavelength, UAVs…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Muhammad Morshed Alam , Sangman Moh

In this paper, a novel framework is proposed to enable air-to-ground channel modeling over millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies in an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wireless network. First, an effective channel estimation approach is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Qianqian Zhang , Aidin Ferdowsi , Walid Saad

A measurement setup made of millimeter-wave and ultra wideband transceivers mounted on both a customized UAV and a ground station for full 3D wireless propagation analysis is described in this work. The developed system represents a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-23 Franco Fuschini , Marina Barbiroli , Enrico M. Vitucci , Vasilii Semkin , Claude Oestges , Bruno Strano , Vittorio Degli-Esposti

Wireless communication at millimeter wave frequencies has attracted considerable attention for the delivery of high-bit-rate connectivity to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, conducting the channel measurements necessary to assess…

Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks require accurate Air-to-Air (A2A) channel models, but most existing work focuses on Air-to-Ground links and leaves the sub-6 GHz A2A channel poorly characterized. We present preliminary 3.4 GHz A2A…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Anıl Gürses , John Kesler , Mihail L. Sichitiu

Millimeter wave (mmWave) technology at 28 GHz is vital for beyond-5G systems, but indoor deployment remains challenging due to limited statistical evidence on propagation. This study investigates path loss, material penetration, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Ayodeji Bolanle Balogun , Sokipriala Jonah

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided millimeter wave (mmWave) technologies have a promising prospect in the future communication networks. By considering the factors of three-dimensional (3D) scattering space, 3D trajectory, and 3D antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Qiuming Zhu , Kai Mao , Maozhong Song , Xiaomin Chen , Boyu Hua , Weizhi Zhong , Xijuan Ye

Accurate motion capture of aerial robots in 3-D is a key enabler for autonomous operation in indoor environments such as warehouses or factories, as well as driving forward research in these areas. The most commonly used solutions at…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Peijun Zhao , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Bing Wang , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

Jittering effects significantly degrade the performance of UAV millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications. To investigate the impacts of UAV jitter on mmWave communications, we firstly model UAV mmWave channel based on the geometric…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-04 Wei Wang , Wei Zhang

An urban tactical wireless network is considered wherein the base stations are situated on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that provide connectivity to ground assets such as vehicles located on city streets. The UAVs are assumed to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Enass Hriba , Matthew C. Valenti , Robert W. Heath

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

Simultaneous use of high-end wearable wireless devices like smart glasses is challenging in a dense indoor environment due to the high nature of interference. In this scenario, the millimeter wave (mmWave) band offers promising potential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Kiran Venugopal , Robert W. Heath

Millimeter wave (mmWave) has great potential in realizing high data rate thanks to the large spectral channels. It is considered as a key technology for the fifth generation wireless networks and is already used in wireless LAN (e.g., IEEE…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-11 Vutha Va , Junil Choi , Robert W. Heath

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer promising potential as communications node carriers, providing on-demand wireless connectivity to users. While existing literature presents various wireless channel models, it often overlooks the impact…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Kamran Shafafi , Eduardo Nuno Almeida , André Coelho , Helder Fontes , Manuel Ricardo , Rui Campos

This paper leverages stochastic geometry to model, analyze, and optimize multi-band unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication networks operating across low-frequency and millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands. We introduce a novel approach to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Xinsong Feng , Ian P. Roberts

Accurate precise positioning at millimeter wave frequencies is possible due to the large available bandwidth that permits precise on-the-fly time of flight measurements using conventional air interface standards. In addition, narrow antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Ojas Kanhere , Shihao Ju , Yunchou Xing , Theodore S. Rappaport