Autonomous Guidance of an Aerial Drone for Maintaining an Effective Wireless Communication Link with a Moving Node Using an Intelligent Reflecting Surface

被引：6

作者：

Eskandari, Mohsen ^{[1
]}

Huang, Hailong ^{[2
]}

Savkin, Andrey, V ^{[1
]}

Ni, Wei ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Univ New South Wales, Sch Elect Engn & Telecommun, Sydney, NSW, Australia

[2] Hong Kong Polytech Univ, Dept Aeronaut & Aviat Engn, Hong Kong, Peoples R China

[3] CSIRO, Data61, Sydney, NSW, Australia

来源：

2022 14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER AND AUTOMATION ENGINEERING (ICCAE 2022) | 2022年

基金：

澳大利亚研究理事会;

关键词：

automation; aerial drone (AD); communication; guidance; intelligent reflecting surface (IRS); intelligent robots;

D O I：

10.1109/ICCAE55086.2022.9762421

中图分类号：

TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];

学科分类号：

0812 ;

摘要：

The excellent 3D mobility has made aerial drones (ADs) good candidates to improve the coverage of wireless communication networks. However, the effectiveness/efficiency of an AD (as an aerial active relay) is questionable for holding a continuous line-of-sight (LoS) link with a moving node (MN) in fifth-generation (5G) millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless networks due to the signal propagations/blockage issues. Nevertheless, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) technology has been introduced as a useful and energy-efficient method to improve the spectrum efficiency of 5G networks. In this paper, an AD equipped with IRS is proposed and autonomously navigated to maintain a continuous wireless link with an MN. The MN can be a vehicle moving through a dense urban environment. Simulation results corroborate the effectiveness of the method.

引用

页码：195 / 199

页数：5

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