What Positioning Accuracy is Sufficient for Reliable mmWave A2G Channel Measurements?

Vasilii Semkin; Aki Karttunen; Seongjoon Kang; Jukka Talvitie; Marco Mezzavilla; Sundeep Rangan; Mikko Valkama

doi:10.23919/EuCAP53622.2022.9768979

What Positioning Accuracy is Sufficient for Reliable mmWave A2G Channel Measurements?

Vasilii Semkin, Aki Karttunen, Seongjoon Kang, Jukka Talvitie, Marco Mezzavilla, Sundeep Rangan, Mikko Valkama

BA6204 Antennas and RF technologies

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Abstract

In this work, we investigate the significance of position accuracy for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) during millimeter-wave (mmWave) channel measurements. The studies are performed at 28 and 60 GHz frequencies. First, we study the effect of the error in the link distances on the 3GPP channel models. Second, we present ray tracing simulations performed in urban environment. We verify that the horizontal/vertical accuracy of ±0.5/0.8 meters may be enough to get reliable data. It should be noted that better accuracy can still improve the results but will require more effort to achieve. In addition, it is confirmed that more severe effect will be visible on the path loss values, while other parameters are not affected as strongly for the LOS case. We present the root mean square error for different positioning accuracies with respect to the reference case, i.e. no error in the UAV position, in angular and time domains which increases linearly with the decreasing accuracy.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2022 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2022
Publisher	IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
ISBN (Electronic)	978-88-31299-04-6
ISBN (Print)	978-1-6654-1604-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.23919/EuCAP53622.2022.9768979
Publication status	Published - 2022
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2022 - Madrid, Spain Duration: 27 Mar 2022 → 1 Apr 2022

Conference

Conference	16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2022
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Madrid
Period	27/03/22 → 1/04/22

Keywords

antennas
channel modeling
positioning accuracy
radio wave propagation
UAV

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10.23919/EuCAP53622.2022.9768979

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Semkin, V, Karttunen, A, Kang, S, Talvitie, J, Mezzavilla, M, Rangan, S & Valkama, M 2022, What Positioning Accuracy is Sufficient for Reliable mmWave A2G Channel Measurements? in 2022 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2022. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2022, Madrid, Spain, 27/03/22. https://doi.org/10.23919/EuCAP53622.2022.9768979

What Positioning Accuracy is Sufficient for Reliable mmWave A2G Channel Measurements? / Semkin, Vasilii; Karttunen, Aki; Kang, Seongjoon; Talvitie, Jukka; Mezzavilla, Marco; Rangan, Sundeep; Valkama, Mikko.

2022 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2022. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 2022.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific › peer-review