Robust Drones Formation Control in 5G Wireless Sensor Network Using mmWave

Shan Meng,Zhixian Wen,Xiaojian Su,Weiguo Yang,Xin Dai,Yimin Zhou

doi:10.1155/2018/5253840

Abstract

The drones formation control in 5G wireless sensor network is discussed. The base station (BS) is used to receive backhaul position signals from the lead drone in formation and launches the beam to the lead one as the fronthaul flying signal enhancement. It is a promising approach to raise the formation strength of drones during flight control. The BS can transform the direction of the antennas and transmit energy to the lead drone that could widely enlarge the number of the receivers and increase the transmission speed of the data links. The millimeter-Wave (mmWave) communication system offers new opportunities to meet this requirement owing to the tremendous amount of available spectrums. However, the massive non-line-of-sight (NLoS) transmission and the site constraints in urban environment are severely challenging the conventional deploying terrestrial low power nodes (LPNs). Simulation experiments have been performed to verify the availability and effectiveness of mmWave in 5G wireless sensor network.

Highlights

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) has been widely applied in numerous fields, such as satellite communication, object detection, human health monitoring, and environmental protection [1]
Since mmWaves include abundant spectrums, they are substantially deployed in the generation mobile heterogeneous networks (HetNets) to improve the coverage capacity in wireless network [5]
The bottom small cells are becoming denser to further boost the spectrum efficiency in the generation of HetNets [7, 8]. It would increase the difficulties of deploying low power nodes (LPNs) due to certain specific constraints from the station deployment, like opposite to the electromagnetic radiation at dense residential communities, cost and space limitation at stadiums, and so on

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Introduction

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) has been widely applied in numerous fields, such as satellite communication, object detection, human health monitoring, and environmental protection [1]. The bottom small cells are becoming denser to further boost the spectrum efficiency in the generation of HetNets [7, 8] It would increase the difficulties of deploying low power nodes (LPNs) due to certain specific constraints from the station deployment, like opposite to the electromagnetic radiation at dense residential communities, cost and space limitation at stadiums, and so on. Heavy nonline-of-sight (NLoS) obstruction would cause blockage and Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing hidden terminal problems [9, 10], which is more common in mmWave small cell network due to poor diffraction in the mmWave band. It could seriously compromise the mmWave coverage capacity [5]. Lots of technical companies have put their effort to enlarge the communication volume and enhance the transmission speed via unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) [11]

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