Home > Research > Publications & Outputs > Coverage Performance in Aerial-Terrestrial HetNets

Electronic data

  • VTC_Khosh

    Accepted author manuscript, 1.05 MB, PDF document

    Available under license: CC BY-NC: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Links

Text available via DOI:

View graph of relations

Coverage Performance in Aerial-Terrestrial HetNets

Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

Published
  • Mohammad G. Khoshkholgh
  • Keivan Navaie
  • Halim Yanikomeroglu
  • Victor C. M. Leung
  • Kang G. Shin
Close
Publication date27/06/2019
Host publication2019 IEEE 89th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2019-Spring)
PublisherIEEE
Pages1-5
Number of pages5
ISBN (electronic)9781728112176
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Providing seamless coverage in current cellular network technologies is surmountable only through gross overengineering. Alternatively, as an economically effective solution, the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), augmented with the functionalities of terrestrial base stations (BSs), is recently advocated. In this paper we investigate the effect that the incorporation of UAV-mounted BSs (U-BS) poses on the coverage probability of cellular networks. To this end, we focus on the evaluation of the coverage probability of a large-scale aerialterrestrial heterogenous cellular network (AT-HetNet), in which BSs of each technology/tier can be either ground (G-BS) or UBS. Our analysis incorporates the impact of Line-of-Sight (LOS) and non-LOS (NLOS) path-loss attenuations of both ground-toground (G2G) and Air-to-Ground (A2G) links. Adopting tools of stochastic geometry we then obtain the coverage probability as a function of main system parameters and percentage of BSs in each tier that are aerial. Using simulations we also confirm the accuracy of our analysis. We further observe that for several common communication environments, e.g., high-rise and dense urban environments, the inclusion of U-BSs can be detrimental to the coverage probability. Nevertheless, it is still possible to minimize the coverage cost by turning off a percentage of G-BSs. Interestingly, for urban and sub-urban areas one can adjust the altitude of U-BSs in order to adjust the coverage probability.