Performance Improvement of

Satellite/Terrestrial Integrated Mobile

Communication System using Unmanned
Aerial Vehicle Cooperative Communications

PRESENTED BY
DEVIKA S
M1 SP
ROLL NO.3
 CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• STICS SATELLITE DOWNLINK MODEL
• RELAY TRANSMISSION MODEL USING UAV
• INTERFERENCE SETTING
• PROPOSED RELAY TRANSMISSION
ALGORITHM
• CONCLUSION
• REFERENCES
 INTRODUCTION
• A satellite/terrestrial integrated mobile communication
system (STICS), in which the satellite system and
terrestrial system share the same frequency band, enables
user terminals to access both systems.
• The communication quality of the satellite link is degraded
by the interference from terrestrial communication links.
• Propose a new cooperative communication scheme using
two timeslots.
• By adopting a UAV as a relay station in STICS satellite
downlink.
• Propose a scheme to improve the frequency diversity effect
by combining the UAV signal and the satellite signal.
 STICS Satellite downlink model
• A mobile terminal can connect both the terrestrial cellular base
station and the satellite station.
• The satellite provides the service link to the mobile terminals via
the feeder link and the ground station.
• Two types of frequency sharing in STICS, are the normal mode and
the reverse mode.
• In the normal mode, both the satellite and the terrestrial uplinks use
the same frequency and both downlinks use the same frequency as
well.
• In the reverse mode, the satellite uplink and the terrestrial downlink
use the same frequency, and vice versa.
• Access scheme is orthogonal frequency division multiple
access (OFDMA) in downlink, and that 1-by-2 (SIMO)
channel is used.
• To obtain the frequency diversity effect, code division
multiplexing (CDM) is applied to OFDMA, is multiplied to
the subcarriers of OFDMA in the frequency.
• The satellite cell is the single outer hexagonal cell and the
hexagonal terrestrial cells are densely deployed inside the
satellite cell.
• Assumed that the terrestrial cell at the centre of the satellite
cell and its adjacent cells are inactive, as shown in Fig. 2.
• This scenario simulates an occurrence of a natural disaster or
the situation where the user is in a mountainous or oceanic
area..
RELAY TRANSMISSION MODEL USING
UAV
• A cooperative communication using two timeslots is
performed. In timeslot 1, the satellite broadcasts the
transmitting signal to the user terminal and UAV.
• After processing the signal ,UAV then transmits the
forwarding signal to the terminal in timeslot 2.
• Using maximum ratio combining of the received signals
in these two timeslots, the terminal can improve the
quality of the received data.
• The satellite and the UAV are perfectly synchronized.
• One UAV is allocated to each terrestrial cell, and thus,
the radius of the UAV cell is the same as that of the
terrestrial cell.
 INTERFERENCE SETTING
• When the STICS operates in the normal mode, the signal of
the terrestrial downlink becomes an interference to the satellite
downlink.
• Based on the ratio of the receiver power of the satellite or UAV
link to the sum of the interference power from the interfering
terrestrial base stations, the desired-to-undesired (D/U) signal
ratio is obtained.
• Based on the D/U ratio, an equivalent Gaussian noise is added
as the interference signal to the desired receiver signal in the
simulation.
 PROPOSED RELAY TRANSMISSION
ALGORITHM
• In the UAV cooperative communication, a decode-and-forward
(DF) relaying is used in which the UAV performs the equalization
on the received signal, as well as decoding, re-encoding, mapping,
and forwarding it to the terminal.
• Also the subcarrier allocation in the forwarding signal in timeslot 2
is not changed from the satellite transmission in timeslot 1.
• In the receiver, four received signals in two timeslots from the
satellite and UAV by two receiver antennas are combined by
maximum ratio combining.
• In Scheme (b), due to the difference in cell size between
satellite and UAV cells, an UAV only forwards its signal to the
users in the target UAV cell.
• UAV keeps only the user subcarriers of the target UAV cell,
and eliminates the signals of other UAV cell users.
• If the number of vacant subcarriers is more than the number
of forwarding subcarriers, the forwarding subcarriers are
duplicated, and forwarded.
• By this scheme, the frequency diversity effect is achieved.
 CONCLUSION
• In this paper, we propose a cooperative communication
scheme in STICS to improve the quality of transmission using
two timeslots by adopting UAV as a relay station for satellite
downlink.
• From the results of the numerical simulation, it was shown that
communication quality can be improved by the proposed
scheme.
• Furthermore, it was shown that the subcarrier duplication in
UAV can achieve the diversity effect, which can enable
Scheme (b) to further enhance its performance over that of
Scheme
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