Low-Flying Drone to Collect Path Loss Data: An Improvement on Longley-Rice Model

Low-Flying Drone to Collect Path Loss Data: An Improvement on Longley-Rice Model
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Volume-71 Issue-5
Year of Publication : 2023
Author : Husnain Siddique, Muhammad Omar, Muhammad Usman, Zainab Chaudhry, Saad Saleem khan, and Stephen Larkin
DOI : 10.14445/22315381/IJETT-V71I5P214

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Husnain Siddique, Muhammad Omar, Muhammad Usman, Zainab Chaudhry, Saad Saleem khan, and Stephen Larkin, "Low-Flying Drone to Collect Path Loss Data: An Improvement on Longley-Rice Model," International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology, vol. 71, no. 5, pp. 141-145, 2023. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/22315381/IJETT-V71I5P214

Abstract
The continuous evolution in wireless communication has led to smaller cell sizes, smart antennas, higher frequencies, and frequency reuse to increase the quality of service. The varying terrain profiles across the globe are causing losses in wireless communication. Path loss is one of the major causes of these losses. A good understanding of it helps in effective radio network planning to avoid poor network interconnectivity and congestion. In this paper, a system of a low-flying drone to collect path loss data is proposed. The path loss data collected using the proposed system in different terrain profiles are then compared to the results simulated on MATLAB using the Longley-Rice propagation model at varying antenna heights.

Keywords
Antenna, Longley-rice, Low-flying, Path loss, Propagation model.

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