Performance analysis of micro unmanned airborne communication relays for cellular networks

2014 9th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, CSNDSP 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 658-663

  Guo, Weisi ^a   Devine, Conor ^a   Wang, Siyi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

airborne relay; cellular network; UAV

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AIRBORNE COMMUNICATIONS; AIRBORNE RELAY; CELLULAR NETWORK; LARGE-SCALE NETWORK; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES; STOCHASTIC GEOMETRY; THROUGHPUT IMPROVEMENT;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 84910626418     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSNDSP.2014.6923909     Document Type: Conference Paper

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