Optimization of UAV heading for the ground-to-air uplink

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 993-1005

  Jiang, Feng ^a   Swindlehurst, A Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

beamforming; interference mitigation; UAV communication networks; UAV positioning; UAV relays

Indexed keywords

ERGODICS; GROUND BASED; GROUND NODE; GROUND-TO-AIR COMMUNICATION; HIGH SNR; INTER-USER INTERFERENCE; INTERFERENCE MITIGATION; LINE-OF-SIGHT CHANNELS; MULTI-ANTENNA; MULTIPLE ACCESS; NEAR-OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION FILTER; SIMPLIFIED ALGORITHMS; SPATIAL DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; SUM-RATE; UPLINK CHANNEL; UPLINK COMMUNICATION;

ALGORITHMS; ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; BEAMFORMING; OPTIMIZATION; SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; TURBO CODES; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 84862277125     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2012.120614     Document Type: Article

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