Millimeter-Wave for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Networks: Enabling Multi-Beam Multi-Stream Communications
arXiv:1810.06923
Abstract
With the fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks being actively standardized and deployed, many new vehicular communications technologies are developed to support and enrich various application scenarios. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled communications emerges as one of many promising solutions of constructing the next-generation highly reconfigurable and mobile networks. In this article, we first investigate and envision the challenges of future UAV applications from the net-work, system, and hardware design perspectives, and then pre-sent a UAV aerial base station (ABS) prototype which works at millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands and enable multi-beam mul-ti-stream communications. In terms of the field trial tests of the first UAV-ABS of its kind in the world, multi-giga-bit-per-second data rate of uplink and downlink is verified with good stability and reliability against mildly challenging weather conditions.
8 pages, 10 figures. P.S. MmWave for UAV networks and multi-stream multi-beam communications, it works ! (from field tests )
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