Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones have found a tremendous range of civilian and commercial applications such as precise agriculture, environmental conservation, and search and rescue missions. In this paper, we re-visit the positioning of a low altitude UAV functioning as a relay node to provide connectivity and communication services to ground users who are out of coverage. A new altitude dependant Rician distribution for the air-to-ground channel - derived from propagation physics - is used and its impact on the optimum altitude for network coverage explored via numerical results.


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    Title :

    Optimal UAV Positioning for Terrestrial Users


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    Publication date :

    2020-05-01


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    168717 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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