Channel Rank Improvement in Urban Drone Corridors Using Passive Intelligent Reflectors
Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) techniques can help in scaling the achievable air-to-ground (A2G) channel capacity while communicating with drones. However, spatial multiplexing with drones suffers from rank deficient channels due to the unobstructed line-of-sight (LoS), especially in millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies that use narrow beams. One possible solution is utilizing low-cost and low-complexity metamaterial based intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) to enrich the multipath environment, taking into account that the drones are restricted to fly only within well-defined drone corridors. A hurdle with this solution is placing the IRSs optimally. In this study, we propose an approach for IRS placement with a goal to improve the spatial multiplexing gains, and hence to maximize the average channel capacity in a predefined drone corridor. Our results at 6 GHz, 28 GHz and 60 GHz show that the proposed approach increases the average rates for all frequency bands for a given drone corridor, when compared with the environment where there are no IRSs present, and IRS-aided channels perform close to each other at sub-6 and mmWave bands.
- Research Organization:
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC07-05ID14517
- OSTI ID:
- 1964129
- Report Number(s):
- INL/CON-22-70699-Rev000
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 2023 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, 03/04/2023 - 03/11/2023
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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