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UAV Cellular Communication in 5G New Radio Wireless Standards

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Cellular Communications

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Very recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have aroused the interest of wireless networking researchers. 3GPP’s new radio (NR) is the global standard for the 5G air interface. By delivering 5G base stations to underserved areas, UAVs can help improve 5G mobile networks allowing bandwidth-intensive services like extremely high-definition (EHD) video streaming and additional multimedia services. More so, inherent 3D mobility, autonomy, and intelligent placement of UAVs make them ideal for a wide range of wireless applications. This chapter presents and looks at 3GPP updates and new 5G NR features for aerial devices. Furthermore, a use case scenario was considered where secondary users reuse spectrum resource channels of primary users for both uplink and downlink 5G communication. The simulation for a range of frequency between 3400 and 3800 MHz with an input impedance of 50 ohms produced a delivery ratio of UAV for a range of users. The UAV 1 and UAV 3 showed decreasing form at approximately 20 users and flatten up at convergence form as the number of users increases.

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    Oluwagbemiga Omotayo Shoewu, Lateef Adesola Akinyemi & Richard Edozie

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Shoewu, O.O., Akinyemi, L.A., Edozie, R. (2023). UAV Cellular Communication in 5G New Radio Wireless Standards. In: Imoize, A.L., Islam, S.M.N., Poongodi, T., Ramasamy, L.K., Siva Prasad, B. (eds) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Cellular Communications. Unmanned System Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08395-2_2

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