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Main Authors: Khawaja, Wahab, Jacobsen, Rune H., Hussain, Sajid, Guvenc, Ismail
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09044
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author Khawaja, Wahab
Jacobsen, Rune H.
Hussain, Sajid
Guvenc, Ismail
author_facet Khawaja, Wahab
Jacobsen, Rune H.
Hussain, Sajid
Guvenc, Ismail
contents In mobile ground-to-air (GA) propagation channels, the birth and death of multipath components (MPCs) are frequently observed, and the wide-sense stationary uncorrelated scattering (WSSUS) assumption does not always hold. Several methods exist for tracking the birth and death of MPCs, however, to the best of knowledge of authors, there is no existing literature that addresses the prediction of the lifespan of the MPCs in nonWSSUS GA propagation channels. In this work, we consider the GA channel as non-WSSUS and individual MPCs across receiver positions are represented as time series based on the Euclidean distance between channel parameters of the MPCs. These time series representations, referred to as path bins, are analyzed using a semi-Markov chain model. The channel parameter variations and dependencies between path bins are used to predict the lifespan of path bins using weighted sum method, machine learning classifiers, and deep neural networks. For comparison, the birth and death of path bins are also modeled using a Poisson distribution and a Markov chain. Simulation results demonstrate that deep neural networks offer highly accurate predictions for the lifespan (including death) of MPC path bins in the considered GA propagation scenario.
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spellingShingle Predicting Lifespan of Ground-to-Air Multipath Components in mmWave UAV Channels
Khawaja, Wahab
Jacobsen, Rune H.
Hussain, Sajid
Guvenc, Ismail
Signal Processing
In mobile ground-to-air (GA) propagation channels, the birth and death of multipath components (MPCs) are frequently observed, and the wide-sense stationary uncorrelated scattering (WSSUS) assumption does not always hold. Several methods exist for tracking the birth and death of MPCs, however, to the best of knowledge of authors, there is no existing literature that addresses the prediction of the lifespan of the MPCs in nonWSSUS GA propagation channels. In this work, we consider the GA channel as non-WSSUS and individual MPCs across receiver positions are represented as time series based on the Euclidean distance between channel parameters of the MPCs. These time series representations, referred to as path bins, are analyzed using a semi-Markov chain model. The channel parameter variations and dependencies between path bins are used to predict the lifespan of path bins using weighted sum method, machine learning classifiers, and deep neural networks. For comparison, the birth and death of path bins are also modeled using a Poisson distribution and a Markov chain. Simulation results demonstrate that deep neural networks offer highly accurate predictions for the lifespan (including death) of MPC path bins in the considered GA propagation scenario.
title Predicting Lifespan of Ground-to-Air Multipath Components in mmWave UAV Channels
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09044