TY - JOUR
T1 - An UAV-Based Experimental Setup for Propagation Characterization in Urban Environment
AU - Fuschini, Franco
AU - Barbiroli, Marina
AU - Vitucci, Enrico Maria
AU - Semkin, Vasilii
AU - Oestges, Claude
AU - Strano, Bruno
AU - Degli-Esposti, Vittorio
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received May 10, 2021; revised July 10, 2021; accepted August 3, 2021. Date of publication August 18, 2021; date of current version August 26, 2021. This work was supported in part by the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FRS-FNRS), Belgium, through the Research Project MACHAON, in part by the Excellence of Science (EOS) Project MUlti SErvice WIreless NETworks (MUSEWINET), in part by the Academy of Finland, in part by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) through the Programme “Dipartimenti di Eccellenza (2018–2022)—Precision Cyberphysical Systems Project (P-CPS),” and in part by the Eu COST Action IRACON (Inclusive Radio Communication Networks for 5G and Beyond) under Grant CA15104. The work of V. Semkin was supported in part by the Jorma Ollila Grant. The Associate Editor coordinating the review process was Kristen M. Donnell. (Corresponding author: Franco Fuschini.) Franco Fuschini, Marina Barbiroli, Enrico Maria Vitucci, Bruno Strano, and Vittorio Degli-Esposti are with the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering “G. Marconi,” CNIT, University of Bologna, 40136 Bologna, Italy (e-mail: franco.fuschini@unibo.it; marina.barbiroli@unibo.it; enricomaria.vitucci@unibo.it; bruno.strano@ unibo.it; v.degliesposti@unibo.it).
Funding Information:
Dr. Fuschini was the recipient of the Marconi Foundation Young Scientist Prize in the context of the XXV Marconi International Fellowship Award in April 1999.
Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FRS-FNRS), Belgium, through the Research Project MACHAON, in part by the Excellence of Science (EOS) Project MUlti SErvice WIreless NETworks (MUSEWINET), in part by the Academy of Finland, in part by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) through the Programme "Dipartimenti di Eccellenza (2018-2022)-Precision Cyberphysical Systems Project (P-CPS)," and in part by the Eu COST Action IRACON (Inclusive Radio Communication Networks for 5G and Beyond) under Grant CA15104.
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PY - 2021/8
Y1 - 2021/8
N2 - A measurement setup, including millimeter-wave and ultrawideband transceivers mounted on both a customized unmanned aerial vehicle and a ground station and a measurement procedure for full 3-D wireless propagation analysis, is described in this work. The custom-made developed system represents a flexible solution for the characterization of wireless channels and especially of urban propagation, as the drone might be easily located almost anywhere from ground level to the buildings’ rooftop and beyond. The double-directional properties of the channel can be achieved by rotating directive antennas at the link ends. Other possible applications in urban contexts include the study of outdoor-to-indoor penetration, line-of-sight to non-line-of-sight transition, 3-D scattering from buildings, and air-to-ground channel characterization for drone-assisted wireless communications.
AB - A measurement setup, including millimeter-wave and ultrawideband transceivers mounted on both a customized unmanned aerial vehicle and a ground station and a measurement procedure for full 3-D wireless propagation analysis, is described in this work. The custom-made developed system represents a flexible solution for the characterization of wireless channels and especially of urban propagation, as the drone might be easily located almost anywhere from ground level to the buildings’ rooftop and beyond. The double-directional properties of the channel can be achieved by rotating directive antennas at the link ends. Other possible applications in urban contexts include the study of outdoor-to-indoor penetration, line-of-sight to non-line-of-sight transition, 3-D scattering from buildings, and air-to-ground channel characterization for drone-assisted wireless communications.
KW - Antenna measurements
KW - Drones
KW - Frequency measurement
KW - Payloads
KW - Directive antennas
KW - Millimeter wave measurements
KW - Antenna arrays
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85113269550&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/TIM.2021.3104401
DO - 10.1109/TIM.2021.3104401
M3 - Article
SN - 0018-9456
VL - 70
SP - 1
EP - 11
JO - IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
JF - IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
M1 - 9517122
ER -