Impact of UAV 3D Wobbles on the Non-Stationary Air-to-Ground Channels at Sub-6 GHz Bands

Wireless communication based on Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is one of the important technologies in the future communication system. It is necessary to establish an accurate air-to-ground (A2G) wireless channel model. In this paper, a A2G channel model with UAV three-dimensional (3D) wobbles (pitch, roll, and yaw) is proposed. The internal vibration of the UAV is modeled as a sinusoidal random process, and the UAV wobble caused by the random air fluctuations is modeled as the uniform distribution random process. We derive the A2G channel temporal auto-correlation function (ACF) with UAV 3D wobbles, analyze the variation of the temporal ACF with different time instants, carrier frequencies, and amplitudes of the wobble angles. It is found that, even if the UAV wobbles slightly, the channel temporal correlation will be significantly affected. Numerical results show that the channel ACF will decrease rapidly with the increase of the amplitudes of the wobble angles and the carrier frequency. This work contributes to the establishment of the next generation wireless channel model and the design of communication system.

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