TY - GEN
T1 - Time and frequency dispersion characteristics of the UAS wireless channel in residential and mountainous desert terrains
AU - Gutierrez, Richard M.
AU - Yu, Hanguang
AU - Rong, Yu
AU - Bliss, Daniel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/7/17
Y1 - 2017/7/17
N2 - The increasing availability of low cost, commercial off-the-shelf unmanned aerial systems (UAS) technology has made it more accessible for researchers to investigate air-to-ground wireless communications channel phenomenology. Furthermore, using software defined radio (SDR) transceivers as the UAS communications platform provides the flexibility for researchers to characterize the air-to-ground channel across multiple frequency bands. In this paper we investigate the time and frequency dispersion characteristics of UAS air-to-ground wireless channel at C band (5.8 GHz), with signal bandwidth of 20 MHz, using empirical measurements collected in outdoor residential and mountainous desert terrains. We characterize the time and frequency dispersion of the UAS air-to-ground channel by evaluating the root mean square (RMS) delay and Doppler spread. For the residential environment, the median RMS delay spread was approximately 0.03μs. For the mountainous desert environment, the median RMS delay spread was approximately 0.06μs.
AB - The increasing availability of low cost, commercial off-the-shelf unmanned aerial systems (UAS) technology has made it more accessible for researchers to investigate air-to-ground wireless communications channel phenomenology. Furthermore, using software defined radio (SDR) transceivers as the UAS communications platform provides the flexibility for researchers to characterize the air-to-ground channel across multiple frequency bands. In this paper we investigate the time and frequency dispersion characteristics of UAS air-to-ground wireless channel at C band (5.8 GHz), with signal bandwidth of 20 MHz, using empirical measurements collected in outdoor residential and mountainous desert terrains. We characterize the time and frequency dispersion of the UAS air-to-ground channel by evaluating the root mean square (RMS) delay and Doppler spread. For the residential environment, the median RMS delay spread was approximately 0.03μs. For the mountainous desert environment, the median RMS delay spread was approximately 0.06μs.
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U2 - 10.1109/CCNC.2017.7983161
DO - 10.1109/CCNC.2017.7983161
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85027404541
T3 - 2017 14th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2017
SP - 516
EP - 521
BT - 2017 14th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2017
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 14th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2017
Y2 - 8 January 2017 through 11 January 2017
ER -