Wireless relay communications with unmanned aerial vehicles: Performance and optimization

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2068-2085

  Zhan, Pengcheng ^a   Yu, Kai ^a,b   Swindlehurst, A Lee ^c  

^a Quantenna Communications ^*  (Sweden)

^b ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^c University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CORRELATION MATRIX; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; EIGENVALUES; ERGODICS; GROUND BASED; GROUND NODE; HANDOFF ALGORITHMS; HEADING ANGLES; HEADING CONTROL; LINK PERFORMANCE; NETWORK DATA RATES; TRANSMISSION RATES; WIRELESS RELAYS;

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 79960149388     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2011.5937283     Document Type: Article

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