Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Khuwaja, Aziz Altaf
• Chen, Yunfei
• Zhao, Nan
• Alouini, Mohamed-Slim
• Dobbins, Paul

Titel

A Survey of Channel Modeling for UAV Communications

Ist Teil von

• IEEE Communications surveys and tutorials, 2018-01, Vol.20 (4), p.2804-2821

Ort / Verlag

New York: IEEE

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Link zum Volltext

• IEEE_Xplore

Quelle

IEEE/IET Electronic Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted great interest in rapid deployment for both civil and military applications. UAV communication has its own distinctive channel characteristics compared to the widely used cellular or satellite systems. Accurate channel characterization is crucial for the performance optimization and design of efficient UAV communication. However, several challenges exist in UAV channel modeling. For example, the propagation characteristics of UAV channels are under explored for spatial and temporal variations in non-stationary channels. Additionally, airframe shadowing has not yet been investigated for small size rotary UAVs. This paper provides an extensive survey of the measurement methods proposed for UAV channel modeling that use low altitude platforms and discusses various channel characterization efforts. We also review from a contemporary perspective of UAV channel modeling approaches, and outline future research challenges in this domain.