Proceedings Article10.1109/GLOCOM.2014.7037248
Modeling air-to-ground path loss for low altitude platforms in urban environments
Akram Al-Hourani,Sithamparanathan Kandeepan,Abbas Jamalipour +2 more
- 01 Dec 2014
- pp 2898-2904
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TL;DR: A statistical propagation model is proposed for predicting the air-to-ground path loss between a low altitude platform and a terrestrial terminal based on the urban environment properties, and is dependent on the elevation angle between the terminal and the platform.
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Abstract: The reliable prediction of coverage footprint resulting from an airborne wireless radio base station, is at utmost importance, when it comes to the new emerging applications of air-to-ground wireless services. These applications include the rapid recovery of damaged terrestrial wireless infrastructure due to a natural disaster, as well as the fulfillment of sudden wireless traffic overload in certain spots due to massive movement of crowds. In this paper, we propose a statistical propagation model for predicting the air-to-ground path loss between a low altitude platform and a terrestrial terminal. The prediction is based on the urban environment properties, and is dependent on the elevation angle between the terminal and the platform. The model shows that air-to-ground path loss is following two main propagation groups, characterized by two different path loss profiles. In this paper we illustrate the methodology of which the model was deduced, as well as we present the different path loss profiles including the occurrence probability of each.
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