Unmanned aerial vehicle-to-wearables (UAV2W) indoor radio propagation channel measurements and modeling

Kachroo, A., Vishwakarma, S., Dixon, J. N., Abuella, H., Popuri, A., Abbasi, Q. H. , Bunting, C. F., Jacob, J. D. and Ekin, S. (2019) Unmanned aerial vehicle-to-wearables (UAV2W) indoor radio propagation channel measurements and modeling. IEEE Access, 7, pp. 73741-73750. (doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2920103)

Abstract

In this paper, off-body ultra-wide band (UWB) channel characterization and modeling are presented between an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a human subject. The wearable antenna was patched at nine different body locations on a human subject during the experiment campaign. The prime objective of this work was to study and evaluate the distance and frequency dependent path loss factors for different bandwidths corresponding to various carrier frequencies, and also look into the time dispersion properties of such unmanned aerial vehicle-to-wearables (UAV2W) system. The environment under consideration was an indoor warehouse with highly conductive metallic walls and roof. Best fit statistical analysis using Akaike Information Criteria revealed that the Log-normal distribution is the best fit distribution to model the UWB fading statistics. The study in this paper will set up a road map for future UAV2W studies to develop enhanced retail and remote health-care monitoring/diagnostic systems.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Abbasi, Professor Qammer
• Authors: Kachroo, A., Vishwakarma, S., Dixon, J. N., Abuella, H., Popuri, A., Abbasi, Q. H., Bunting, C. F., Jacob, J. D., and Ekin, S.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering > Electronics and Nanoscale Engineering
• Journal Name: IEEE Access
• Publisher: IEEE
• ISSN: 2169-3536
• ISSN (Online): 2169-3536
• Published Online: 30 May 2019
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2019 IEEE
• First Published: First published in IEEE Access 7: 73741-73750
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy