Future Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-assisted wireless communication systems are expected to utilize wide bandwidths available at terahertz (THz) frequencies to enhance system throughput. To compensate for the severe path loss in the THz band, it is essential to have a multitude of antennas in the UAV to generate narrow beams for directional transmission. However, narrow beams severely limit its spatial coverage, which greatly affects the efficiency of large-scale access UAV-assisted THz systems. Moreover, the combination of massive antennas and large bandwidth at THz makes the misalignment of the beams caused by beam squint non-negligible and also high energy consumption. UAV-assisted communication technology can effectively increase spatial coverage and provide reliable LoS communication links. In addition, reducing the number of radio frequency (RF) chains while ensuring the number of transmitted data streams and space division multiplexing capability is also an effective way to reduce energy consumption in the UAV communication. In this paper, a single RF chain uniform planar array (UPA) with true-time-delays (TTDs) is equipped on the UAV to achieve two dimensional (2D) beams and split spatial beams to improve transmission efficiency. We analyze the 2D beam squint of the UPA and design a time-delay phased UPA for UAV-assisted THz communication systems. By introducing TTDs between the single RF chain and phase shifters, the beam squint can be controlled flexibly by introducing the delay between each antenna. When TTDs are arranged in both the horizontal and vertical dimensions, the coverage of the beams becomes more complicated compared to uniform linear arrays (ULA). Simulation results show that the proposed time-delay phased UPA can achieve better performance in both single-beam and multi-beam modes for single user and multi-user scenarios compared with conventional phased UPA, respectively. In addition, we propose frequency division beam multiple access (FDBMA) multi access technology, which achieves more efficient multi access by reusing resources from different frequency beam pairs. Finally, the results also show that the enlargement of the beamwidth through the proposed FDBMA strategy can also increase the performance in multi-user scenarios.


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    Titel :

    UAV-Assisted Wideband Terahertz Wireless Communications with Time-Delay Phased UPA under Beam Squint


    Beteiligte:
    Hao Huang (Autor:in) / Qinghe Zheng (Autor:in) / Hikmet Sari (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2023




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Unbekannt




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