Wireless Communications with UAV

Post date: Sep 08, 2021 9:21:24 AM

Lecturer Yazen Saifuldeen Mahmood at the Department of Communication Engineering gave a seminar entitled “Wireless Communications with UAV” on 5th May 2021 at 12:00 PM. The seminar focused on wireless communication systems that include unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) promise to provide cost effective wireless connectivity for devices without infrastructure coverage. Compared to terrestrial communications or those based on high-altitude platforms (HAPs), on-demand wireless systems with low-altitude UAVs are in general faster to deploy, more flexibly re-configured, and are likely to have better communication channels due to the presence of short-range line-of-sight (LoS) links. However, the utilization of highly mobile and energy constrained UAVs for wireless communications also introduces many new challenges. In this seminar, we provide an overview of UAV-aided wireless communications, by introducing the main channel characteristics, highlighting the key design considerations as well as the new opportunities to be exploited.

Seminar keywords: UAV; Channel Modeling; Communication