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Communication Channel Model between Two Neighbors in UAV Networks

Wassim Yassin aljuneidi, YASSER JAAMOUR, KHALDOUN KHORZOM

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle "UAV" networking is evolving as a major state of the art research field, thanks to the foreseen revolution in its applications. Enhancing the performance of such networks requires developing a channel model between any couple of neighbors within the UAV network. In this paper, we present a statistical signal reception model for the shadowed communication channel between two neighbors in a UAV network. In this model, we consider both the shadowing effect and the small scale fading effect. Focusing on the applications where a UAV network could be considered as a rural environment, the shadowing is considered as a Line Of Sight (LOS) lognormal one, where the LOS component is shadowed by obstacles present within the path between two network nodes. The presented model relates the power spectral density of the received signal to noise ratio (SNR) per symbol with the physical path parameters, which could be measured in real time.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijtet.v1i2.82

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