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    Dedicating Cellular Infrastructure for Aerial Users: Advantages and Potential Impact on Ground Users


    Chen, Lin, Kishk, Mustafa A. and Alouini, Mohamed-Slim (2023) Dedicating Cellular Infrastructure for Aerial Users: Advantages and Potential Impact on Ground Users. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 22 (4). pp. 2523-2535. ISSN 1536-1276

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    Abstract

    A new generation of aerial vehicles is hopeful to be the next frontier for the transportation of people and goods, becoming even as important as ground users in the communication systems. To enhance the coverage of aerial users, appropriate adjustments should be made to the existing cellular networks that mainly provide services for ground users by the down-tilted antennas of the terrestrial base stations (BSs). It is promising to up-tilt the antennas of a subset of BSs for serving aerial users through the mainlobe. With this motivation, in this work, we use tools from stochastic geometry to analyze the coverage performance of the adjusted cellular network (consisting of the up-tilted BSs and the down-tilted BSs). Correspondingly, we present exact and approximate expressions of the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR)-based coverage probabilities for users in the sky and on the ground, respectively. Numerical results verify the analysis accuracy and clarify the advantages of up-tilting BS antennas on the communication connectivity of aerial users without the potential adverse impact on the quality of service (QoS) of ground users. Moreover, it is unveiled that there exists an optimal value of the up-tilted/down-tilted BS density ratio for maximizing the coverage probability of the aerial or ground users.
    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: Stochastic geometry; aerial transportation; cellular networks; coverage probability; up-tilt angle;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Science and Engineering > Electronic Engineering
    Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > Hamilton Institute
    Item ID: 19395
    Identification Number: 10.1109/TWC.2022.3212122
    Depositing User: Mustafa Kishk
    Date Deposited: 21 Jan 2025 16:35
    Journal or Publication Title: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
    Publisher: IEEE
    Refereed: Yes
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    URI: https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/19395
    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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