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- Title
Air-to-Ground Path Loss Model at 3.6 GHz under Agricultural Scenarios Based on Measurements and Artificial Neural Networks.
- Authors
Li, Hanpeng; Mao, Kai; Ye, Xuchao; Zhang, Taotao; Zhu, Qiuming; Wang, Manxi; Ge, Yurao; Li, Hangang; Ali, Farman
- Abstract
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found expanding utilization in smart agriculture. Path loss (PL) is of significant importance in the link budget of UAV-aided air-to-ground (A2G) communications. This paper proposes a machine-learning-based PL model for A2G communication in agricultural scenarios. On this basis, a double-weight neurons-based artificial neural network (DWN-ANN) is proposed, which can strike a fine equilibrium between the amount of measurement data and the accuracy of predictions by using ray tracing (RT) simulation data for pre-training and measurement data for optimization training. Moreover, an RT pre-correction module is introduced into the DWN-ANN to optimize the impact of varying farmland materials on the accuracy of RT simulation, thereby improving the accuracy of RT simulation data. Finally, channel measurement campaigns are carried out over a farmland area at 3.6 GHz, and the measurement data are used for the training and validation of the proposed DWN-ANN. The prediction results of the proposed PL model demonstrate a fine concordance with the measurement data and are better than the traditional empirical models.
- Publication
Drones (2504-446X), 2023, Vol 7, Issue 12, p701
- ISSN
2504-446X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/drones7120701