Fundamentals of Wobbling and Hardware Impairments-Aware Air-to-Ground Channel Model

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作者
Banagar, Morteza [1 ]
Dhillon, Harpreet S. [1 ]
机构
[1] Virginia Polytech Inst & State Univ, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Wireless VT, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Autonomous aerial vehicles; Hardware; Wireless communication; Channel models; Air to ground communication; Atmospheric modeling; Measurement; Coherence bandwidth; coherence time; hardware impairments; power delay profile; power spectral density; random UAV wobbling; wireless channel; UAV COMMUNICATIONS; ALTITUDE; SYSTEMS;
D O I
10.1109/TVT.2024.3436046
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
In this paper, we develop an impairments-aware air-to-ground unified channel model that incorporates the effect of both wobbling and hardware impairments, where the former is caused by random physical fluctuations of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and the latter by intrinsic radio frequency (RF) nonidealities. The impact of UAV wobbling is modeled by two stochastic processes, i.e., the canonical Wiener process and the more realistic sinusoidal process. In contrast, the aggregate impact of all hardware impairments is modeled as two multiplicative and additive distortion noise processes. We then rigorously characterize the autocorrelation function (ACF) of the wireless channel, using which we provide a comprehensive analysis of four key channel-related metrics: i) power delay profile (PDP), ii) coherence time, iii) coherence bandwidth, and iv) power spectral density (PSD) of the distortion-plus-noise process. Furthermore, we evaluate these metrics with reasonable UAV wobbling and hardware impairment models to obtain useful insights. Notably, we demonstrate that even for small UAV wobbling, the coherence time severely degrades at high frequencies, which renders air-to-ground channel estimation very difficult at these frequencies. To the best of our understanding, this is the first work that characterizes the joint impact of UAV wobbling and hardware impairments on the air-to-ground wireless channel.
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页码:17946 / 17962
页数:17
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