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Outage Analysis for Cooperative mmWave UAV Communications With Beam Training Overhead

Journal Article · · IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
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  1. North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States)
  2. Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)

In this letter, we investigate the tradeoff between reliability and beam training overhead in cooperative millimeter wave (mmWave) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications. In particular, we analyze how outage probability varies with the number of neighboring UAVs being probed as potential relays for relay selection. Unlike existing work, the limited number of UAV beams as well as UAV orientations are explicitly considered in our analysis. Here we derive the outage probability in closed form and verify our analysis via simulations. The results facilitate us to understand the fundamental limits of cooperative mmWave UAV communications.

Research Organization:
Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
Grant/Contract Number:
AC07-05ID14517
OSTI ID:
1887169
Report Number(s):
INL/JOU-21-63909-Rev000
Journal Information:
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Journal Name: IEEE Wireless Communications Letters Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 10; ISSN 2162-2337
Publisher:
IEEECopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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