UAV Urban Channels at 5 GHz Part II: Patch Antenna

Abstract

This report is the second in a series simulating UAV wireless relays supporting small-unit mobile ground forces deployed in a 3-D digital city. Both reports employ the Coyote as the simulated UAV platform but use different antennas on the UAV. The first report put a bottom-mounted whip antenna establishing a baseline performance at 500 MHz. This second report employs a bottom-mounted patch antenna at 5 GHz. Both reports show the UAV relaying between two street-level nodes has more throughput than the ground-to-ground link. This report shows the UAV loitering over two street-level nodes delivers an average of 332 Mbps at 1 Watt total power while the ground-to-ground link delivers 0.5 Mbps at the same power.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 27, 2021
Accession Number
AD1162073

Entities

People

  • Jeffery C. Allen
  • John H. Meloling
  • Michael P Daly

Organizations

  • Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bandwidth
  • Broadcasting
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Cost Models
  • Diffraction
  • Doppler Effect
  • Electric Fields
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Bands
  • Geometry
  • Goodness Of Fit Tests
  • Network Simulation
  • Random Variables
  • Scattering
  • Three Dimensional
  • Transmitters
  • Wireless Communications

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  • Radio communications and signal processing.