Tian, Yu and Pan, Gaofeng and Kishk, Mustafa A. and Alouini, Mohamed-Slim (2022) Stochastic Analysis of Cooperative Satellite-UAV Communications. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 21 (6). pp. 3570-3586. ISSN 1536-1276

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This paper considers a dual-hop cooperative satellite-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication system including a satellite (S) and a group of cluster headers (CHs) which are respectively with a group of uniformly distributed UAVs. Specifically, the CHs serve as aerial decode-and-forward relays to forward the information transmitted by the S to the UAVs. Moreover, free-space optical (FSO) and radio frequency (RF) technologies are respectively adopted over S-CH and CH-UAV links to exploit the high directivity of FSO over long-distance transmission and the omnidirectional coverage ability of RF. The positions of the CHs in the three-dimensional space follow the Matérn hard-core point processes type-II, in which each CH cannot be closer to another by less than a predefined distance. Three different cases over CH-UAV links are considered during the performance modeling: interference-free, interference-dominated, and interference-and-noise. Then, the coverage performance of the S-CH link and the CH-UAV link in the aforementioned three cases is studied and the closed-form analytical expressions of the coverage probability (CP) over both two links are derived. Additionally, the asymptotic expressions for the CP over S-CH link and CH-UAV link in the interference-free case are derived. Finally, numerical results are provided to validate our proposed analytical models and thus some meaningful conclusions are achieved.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Coverage probability; free-space optical communication; Matérn hard-core point process; satellite communication; stochastic geometry; unmanned aerial vehicle;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Electronic Engineering
Item ID:	17568
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2021.3121299
Depositing User:	Mustafa Kishk
Date Deposited:	18 Sep 2023 14:49
Journal or Publication Title:	IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Publisher:	IEEE
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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