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New Deterministic and Stochastic Simulation Models for UAV-MIMO Ricean Fading Channels

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For the practical simulation and performance evaluation of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) Ricean fading channels, it is desirable to develop accurate UAV-MIMO channel simulation models for more realistic scenarios of non-isotropic scattering. In this study, using a two-cylinder reference model to describe the distribution of scatterers, we propose new deterministic and stochastic simulation models. Analytical and numerical results indicate that both simulation models provide good approximations to the desired statistical properties of the reference model, and the stochastic simulation model results in a better performance under comparable computational complexity.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

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This work was in part supported by the Major Project from Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission (No. Z181100003218007), the National Science and Technology Major Project (No. 2018ZX03001031), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61622101 and 61571020). The associate editor coordinating the review of this paper and approving it for publication was L. Bai.

Xi Zhang received her B.S. degree from the School of Computer Science & Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China, in 2017. She is currently pursuing her M.S. degree in Peking University, Beijing, China. Her research interests include UAV communications, mobile propagation channel simulations and channel modeling for massive MIMO.

Xiang Cheng (S05-M10-SM13) [corresponding author] received his Ph.D. degree from Heriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, U.K., in 2009, where he received his Postgraduate Research Thesis Prize. He is currently a professor at Peking University. His general research interests are in areas of channel modeling and mobile communications, on which he has published more than 200 journal and conference papers, 5 books, and 7 patents. Dr. Cheng was the recipient of the IEEE Asia Pacific (AP) Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2015, the co-recipient for the 2016 IEEE JSAC Best Paper Award: Leonard G. Abraham Prize, the NSFC Outstanding Young Investigator Award, the First-Rank and Second-Rank Awards in Natural Science, Ministry of Education in China, and received the Best Paper Awards at IEEE ITST’12, ICCC’13, ITSC’14, ICC’16, ICNC’17, and GLOBECOM’18. He has served as the symposium leading-chair, co-chair, and a member of the technical program committee for several international conferences. He is now an IEEE distinguished lecturer and an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and for Journal of Communications and Information Networks.

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Zhang, X., Cheng, X. New Deterministic and Stochastic Simulation Models for UAV-MIMO Ricean Fading Channels. J. Commun. Inf. Netw. 3, 15–22 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41650-018-0033-2

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