Relay-Assisted Aerial Communication over a Single-Shadowed Communication Channel

Abstract

This paper discusses amplify-and-forward relay-assisted air-to-ground unmanned aerial vehicle communication over a recently proposed single-shadowing-based composite fading scenario. Included are the results derived from the Fluctuating Beckmann faded co-channel interference at the receiver node and relay. Maximal ratio combining based diversity scheme is considered. The power splitting at the receiver for energy harvesting has been assimilated. The utilization of characteristic function leads to the derivation of outage, success probabilities, and capacity with outage expressions. These expressions represent the impact of path-loss, aerial vehicle-relay, relay-receiver distances, and channel characteristics of desired and interference signals. Utilizing these expressions, numerical outcomes are presented and evaluated.