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ArticleKAUST Department
Communication Theory LabComputer Science
Computer Science Program
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE) Division
Electrical and Computer Engineering Program
Date
2021Permanent link to this record
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This paper considers a dual-hop cooperative satellite-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication system including a satellite (S) and a group of cluster headers (CHs) which are respectively with a group of uniformly distributed UAVs. Specifically, the CHs serve as aerial decode-and-forward relays to forward the information transmitted by the S to the UAVs. Moreover, free-space optical (FSO) and radio frequency (RF) technologies are respectively adopted over S-CH and CH-UAV links to exploit the high directivity of FSO over long-distance transmission and the omnidirectional coverage ability of RF. The positions of the CHs in the three-dimensional space follow the Matérn hard-core point processes type-II, in which each CH cannot be closer to another by less than a predefined distance. Three different cases over CH-UAV links are considered during the performance modeling: interference-free, interference-dominated, and interference-and-noise. Then, the coverage performance of the S-CH link and the CH-UAV link in the aforementioned three cases is studied and the closed-form analytical expressions of the coverage probability (CP) over both two links are derived. Additionally, the asymptotic expressions for the CP over S-CH link and CH-UAV link in the interference-free case are derived. Finally, numerical results are provided to validate our proposed analytical models and thus some meaningful conclusions are achieved.Citation
Tian, Y., Pan, G., Kishk, M. A., & Alouini, M.-S. (2021). Stochastic Analysis of Cooperative Satellite-UAV Communications. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 1–1. doi:10.1109/twc.2021.3121299Sponsors
This work was supported in part by the Office of Sponsored Research at KAUST and in part by the NSF of China under Grant 6217011890. The associate editor coordinating the review of this paper and approving it for publication was Dr. M. Ding.Publisher
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10.1109/TWC.2021.3121299