空时分组编码的无人机中继通信航迹规划方法

无人机(UAV)中继通信是实现远距离点对点无线通信的一种重要技术手段。为提高无人机中继通信系统链路传输的可靠性,提出基于空时分组编码的无人机放大转发中继通信传输方案,并基于双跳链路遍历容量最大化的准则给出了无人机最佳航迹规划方法,并进一步利用FM-EM算法给出了基于空时分组编码无人机中继通信系统的中断概率及遍历信道容量计算公式。计算机仿真表明:提出的方法显著优于传统的单发单收(SISO)无人机中继通信系统。     

无人机中继平台覆盖区域统计模型

针对中继信号覆盖区域确定性模型没有考虑信道随机衰落影响的问题,提出了一种基于中断概率的无人机（UAVs）中继平台信号覆盖半径统计模型。通过将中继链路建模为包含路径损耗、阴影衰落和多径衰落的复合分布模型,推导获得中继信号覆盖半径的概率分布,并给出一种利用中断概率数值求解覆盖半径的方法。仿真结果表明,信道衰落对覆盖半径影响非常大,当中断概率小于10%时,覆盖半径仅为无衰落信道时的一半。研究结果对移动自组织网络（MANETs）中的中继网络的无人机最优布置、飞行策略以及网络性能评估等具有重要的参考价值。     

无人机中继平台覆盖区域统计模型简

 针对中继信号覆盖区域确定性模型没有考虑信道随机衰落影响的问题,提出了一种基于中断概率的无人机（UAVs）中继平台信号覆盖半径统计模型。通过将中继链路建模为包含路径损耗、阴影衰落和多径衰落的复合分布模型,推导获得中继信号覆盖半径的概率分布,并给出一种利用中断概率数值求解覆盖半径的方法。仿真结果表明,信道衰落对覆盖半径影响非常大,当中断概率小于10%时,覆盖半径仅为无衰落信道时的一半。研究结果对移动自组织网络（MANETs）中的中继网络的无人机最优布置、飞行策略以及网络性能评估等具有重要的参考价值。     

非对称衰落信道下无人机中继传输方案及性能分析

 无人机(UAV)作为中继传输平台受到了国内外研究人员的广泛关注。本文研究了非对称衰落信道下的无人机中继传输系统,提出了输出信噪比最大化准则下的波束形成(BF)优化方案,并推导出系统中断概率、遍历容量和平均误符号率等无线通信系统主要性能指标的理论表达式。通过计算机仿真验证了本文提出的中继传输方案及性能分析的正确性,并定量分析了天线数量、信道参数以及功率分配对系统性能的影响,为无人机中继传输系统的设计及性能评估提供了参考和依据。     

基于无人机下行链路的OFDM信道估计研究

该文将正交频分复用技术(OFDM)传输系统应用于无人机下行数据链路中,基于无人机通信信道的组成、冲激响应模型,构建了无人机链路中的OFDM通信系统.针对无人机信道快时变和高动态等特点.提出一种改进的OFDM信道估计算法,给出了在无人机飞行状态下误码率性能的仿真结果.实验结果表明该OFDM信道估计算法可以满足未来无人机下行数据链路系统要求.     

一种全速率协作通信系统传输方案

针对协作通信带来链路传输效率降低的问题,在译码转发中继方案的基础上,提出一种新的全速率协作通信传输方案。首先给出全速率协作通信系统的接收信号模型,并利用矩函数方法理论推导给出全速率协作通信系统最大似然接收机的链路成对差错概率及链路分集增益,理论分析表明：全速率协作通信传输方案可获得1符号/时隙的传输效率,且最大似然接收机可获取4重分集增益。计算机仿真结果证明理论分析的正确性。     

一种基于QoS的自适应混合协同传输方法及性能分析

理想的混合协同传输系统中,所有的中继节点都参与译码,将带来计算复杂度的提高、节点资源消耗的增加以及信息传输时延的增大。针对多节点的协同无线传输网络,提出了一种基于服务质量(Quality of Service, QoS)的自适应混合协同传输方法,并进行了性能分析,给出了系统误码率(Symbol Error Rate, SER)及中断概率的闭合表达式。该方法根据目的节点的QoS需求以及中继节点的信噪比(SNR)门限,动态地调整中继节点的传输模式,能够减小系统能耗,延长节点使用寿命。数值及仿真结果表明,基于中继节点信噪比门限的混合协同传输能够以较低的实现复杂度获得与理想的混合协同传输相近的性能,理论的性能分析结果与实际仿真结果相一致。     

一种基于多无人机的中继节点布置问题建模与优化方法

针对战场环境下急需在无法通信的节点间构建有效通信链路的情形,使用多无人机作为中继节点,建立了中继节点布置(RNP)问题模型。模型以中继链路有效和无人机安全为约束,以中继布置点位置及相应的无人机为输出,不但考虑了使用的中继无人机数量,还考虑了构建中继链路花费的时间。考虑到该问题是难以求解的混合整数多目标优化问题,同时在紧急应用情形下,要求求解算法快速有效,建立了一种多项式时间中继节点布置算法(PTRPA)。仿真实验验证了所提模型确实能够在更短的时间内完成有效中继链路构建;通过Monte-Carlo方法对比和分析不同因素对PTRPA算法、随机抽样算法、遗传算法求解该问题的结果性能和时间性能的影响,验证了PTRPA算法不但能够给出接近最优的解,且快速有效,满足战场决策需求。     

多载波调制结合Turbo编码技术的性能分析

多载波调制是一种有效克服衰落信道频率选择性的技术,从而显著减少码间干扰(ISI)。Turbo码以其接近香农极限的工作性能受到人们的注目,它能在极低信噪比条件下提供可靠通信。把多载波调制与Turbo 编码结合起来能够对整个系统提供显著的性能增益。本文试图对采用这两种技术的通信系统给出性能上的评估。     

无人机地面控制站系统的应用研究

研究了一套功能完善的无人机地面控制站系统,由地面飞控站和地面导航站两部分组成。地面飞控站通过无线电链路直接与无人机自动驾驶仪进行通信;地面导航站是地面控制站的一个航迹系统,运用以太网实现它与地面飞控站之间的通信。     

Proactive optimization of transmission power and 3D trajectory in UAV-assisted relay systems with mobile ground users

In this paper, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-assisted relay communication system is studied, where a UAV is served as a flying relay to maintain a communication link between a mobile source node and a remote destination node. Specifically, an average outage probability minimization problem is formulated firstly, with the constraints on the transmission power of the source node, the maximum energy consumption budget, the transmission power, the speed and acceleration of the flying UAV relay. Next, the closed-form of outage probability is derived, under the hybrid line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight probability channel model. To deal with the formulated nonconvex optimization, a long-term proactive optimization mechanism is developed. In particular, firstly, an approximation for line-of-sight probability and a reformulation of the primal problem are given, respectively. Then, the reformulated problem is transformed into two subproblems: one is the transmission power optimization with given UAV’s trajectory and the other is the trajectory optimization with given transmission power allocation. Next, two subproblems are tackled via tailoring primal–dual subgradient method and successive convex approximation, respectively. Furthermore, a proactive optimization algorithm is proposed to jointly optimize the transmission power allocation and the three-dimensional trajectory. Finally, simulation results demonstrate the performance of the proposed algorithm under various parameter configurations.     

Optimization of beamforming and path planning for UAV-assisted wireless relay networks

Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles （UAVs） acting as relay platforms have attracted considerable attention due to the advantages of extending coverage and improving connectivity for long-range communications. Specifically, in the scenario where the access point （AP） is mobile, a UAV needs to find an efficient path to guarantee the connectivity of the relay link. Motivated by this fact, this paper proposes an optimal design for beamforming （BF） and UAV path planning. First of all, we study a dual-hop amplify-and-forward （AF） wireless relay network, in which a UAV is used as relay between a mobile AP and a fixed base station （BS）. In the network, both of the AP and the BS are equipped with multiple antennas, whereas the UAV has a single antenna. Then, we obtain the output signal~to-noise ratio （SNR） of the dual-hop relay network. Based on the criterion of maximizing the output SNR, we develop an optimal design to obtain the solution of the optimal BF weight vector and the UAV heading angle. Next, we derive the closed-form outage probability （OP） expression to investigate the performance of the dual-hop relay network conveniently. Finally, computer simulations show that the proposed approach can obtain nearly optimal flying path and OP performance, indicating the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. Furthermore, we find that increasing the antenna number at the BS or the maximal heading angle can significantly improve the performance of the considered relay network.     

Relay selection based on MAP estimation for cooperative communication with outdated channel state information

In this paper, we consider an amplify-and-forward (AF) cooperative communication system when the channel state information (CSI) used in relay selection differs from that during data transmission, i.e., the CSI used in relay selection is outdated. The selected relay may not be actually the best for data transmission and the outage performance of the cooperative system will deteriorate. To improve its performance, we propose a relay selection strategy based on maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation, where relay is selected based on predicted signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). To reduce the computation complexity, we approximate the a posteriori probability density of SNR and obtain a closed-form predicted SNR, and a relay selection strategy based on the approximate MAP estimation (RS-AMAP) is proposed. The simulation results show that this approximation leads to trivial performance loss from the perspective of outage probability. Compared with relay selection strategies given in the literature, the outage probability is reduced largely through RS-AMAP for medium-to-large transmitting powers and medium-to-high channel correlation coefficients.     

Energy-efficiency maximization for fixed-wing UAV-enabled relay network with circular trajectory

With the development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), the applications of UAVs have been extensively explored. In the field of wireless communications, the relay nodes are often used to extend network coverage. However, traditional fixed ground relays cannot be flexibly deployed due to their low heights and fixed locations. Hence, deploying UAV as relay node is a promising solution and has become a research hotspot. In this paper, we consider an UAV-enabled relaying network in which a fixed-wing UAV is deployed between the Base Station (BS) and Ground Users (GUs). We study the energy-efficiency gap between the link “BS-UAV-GUs” and the link “BS-GUs”, and jointly optimize UAV relay transmission power and flight radius to achieve the highest energy-efficiency. Firstly, the UAV/BS-GUs channels models and the UAV energy consumption model are built. Secondly, the optimization objective function is formulated to maximize the energy-efficiency gap. Then, the solution of the optimization problem is divided into a two-step iteration process, in which the UAV relay transmission power and flight radius are adjusted to maximize the energy-efficiency gap. Finally, the experimental results under different simulation scenarios (such as cities, forests, deserts, oceans, etc.) are shown to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. The results show that the proposed algorithm can always find the optimal UAV relay transmission power and flight radius settings, and achieve the largest energy-efficiency gap. The convergency speed of the proposed algorithm is fast, and can obtain the optimal solution within only a few iterations.     

航空电子系统FC交换式网络的可靠性研究

 对于采用光纤通道(FC)互连的航空电子系统，从FC的基本模型出发，给出了由多个FC交换机组成的FC交换式网络的通信模型；采用基于任务的可靠性建模方法，给出了FC交换式网络的可靠性计算公式，并提出了任务基本路径的概念。根据航空电子系统提高可靠性的需要，提出了FC交换式网络的2种冗余拓扑结构：基本路径冗余和全网络冗余；最后通过实例分析了端口单元、交换要素单元和链路单元对FC交换式网络及2种冗余拓扑结构可靠性的影响；FC交换式网络可靠性的研究对于航空电子系统设计阶段的容错设计和拓扑选择都将起到指导作用。     

Robust trajectory planning for UAV communication systems in the presence of jammers

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has emerged as a promising novel application for the Sixth-Generation (6G) wireless communication by leveraging more favorable Line-of-Sight (LoS) propagation. However, the jamming resistance by exploiting UAV’s mobility is a new challenge in the UAV-ground communication. This paper investigates the trajectory planning problem in an UAV communication system, where the UAV is operated by a Ground Control Unit (GCU) to perform certain tasks in the presence of multiple jammers with imperfect power and location information. To ensure the reliability of the GCU-to-UAV link, we formulate the problem as a non-convex semi-infinite optimization, aiming to maximize the average worst-case Signal-to-Interference-plus-Noise Ratio (SINR) over a given flight duration by designing the robust trajectory of the UAV under stringent energy availability constraints. To handle this problem efficiently, we develop an iterative algorithm for the solution with the aid of S-procedure and Successive Convex Approximation (SCA) method. Numerous results demonstrate the efficacy of our proposed algorithm and offer some useful design insights to practical system.