In this paper, delay Doppler (DD) domain is utilized for enabling an efficient handover-triggering mechanism in highly dynamic unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones to ground networks. In the proposed scheme, the estimated DD channel gains using DD multi-carrier modulation (DDMC), e.g., orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation, are utilized for triggering the handover decisions. This is motivated by the fact that the estimated DD channel gain is time-invariant throughout the whole OTFS symbol despite the entity speed. This results in more stable handover decisions over that based on the time-varying received-signal strength (RSS) or frequency time (FT) channel gains using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation employed in fifth-generation–new radio (5G-NR) and its predecessors. To mathematically bind the performance of the proposed scheme, we studied its performance under channel estimation errors of the most dominant DD channel estimators, i.e., least square (LS) and minimum mean square error (MMSE), and we prove that they have marginal effects on its performance. Numerical analyses demonstrated the superiority of the proposed DD-based handover-triggering scheme over candidate benchmarks in terms of the handover overhead, the achievable throughput, and ping-pong ratio under different simulation conditions.


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    Title :

    OTFS-Based Handover Triggering in UAV Networks




    Publication date :

    2025




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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