Yes / Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commercially known as drones, have received great attention. This is due to their versatility and applicability to a large number of domains such as surveillance system, aerial photography, traffic control, flyable base stations to provide a broadband coverage and even for future urban transportation services. In this paper, the optimal distance between multiple aerial base stations has analytically been derived, based on an aerial coverage area computation. This is a fundamental wireless metric that can significantly minimise the intra-overlapped coverage and also can enhance wireless coverage connectivity and performance of aerial wireless networks. The novelty of our approach brings a better aerial optimal design understanding for UAVs communications performance without the need for establishing an aerial deployment setup.

To meet the latest requirements of the 6G standards, several techniques have been proposed in the open literature, such as millimeter waves, terahertz communication, and massive MIMO. In addition to these recent technologies, the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is strongly advocated for 6G networks, as the 6G standard will not be dedicated to broadband services, but will rather be oriented towards reduced geographical cellular coverage. In this context, the deployment of UAVs is considered a key solution for seamless connectivity and reliable coverage. Although UAVs are characterized by their high mobility and their ability to establish line-of-sight links, their use is still impeded by several factors such as weather conditions, their limited computing power, and, most importantly, their limited energy. In this work, we are aiming for the novel technology that enables indefinite wireless power transfer for UAVs using laser beams. We propose a novel UAV deployment strategy, based on which we analyze the overall performance of the system in terms of wireless coverage and provide some useful insights. To this end, we use tractable tools from stochastic geometry to model the complex communication system.

Traffic from wireless and mobile devices is predicted to increase 10-fold between 2014 and 2019, surpassing wired data traffic by 2016. Given the expected radio frequency (RF) capacity crunch, this growing wireless demand will have to be met using a variety of new technologies exploiting other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. Promising research areas include the Millimetre Band as well as Optical Wireless Communications (OWC). Millimetre Band demonstrations have accomplished ultrafast multi-Gigabit links, making use of state-of-the-art fibre transmission systems. However, complex opto-electronic (OE) interfaces are required to convert the optical carrier into Millimetre wireless signals. To avoid these interfaces, an all-optical transparent network is proposed here, spanning over both the fibre and OWC domains, in order to deliver ultrahigh data rates to mobile end-users in indoor environments. This is supported by the recent deployment of fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks creating the potential for Terabit aggregate connections at the user's doorstep. Therefore, infrared fibre-wireless-fibre (FWF) links are studied to support data rates over 100 Gb/s in nomadic applications. The link coverage is achieved via narrow beam beamsteering over a wide field-of-view (FOV) using suitable localization and tracking techniques. The proposed model is inherently bidirectional and transparent, i.e. independent of the data rate and modulation format. In this thesis, the potential for ultrafast wide coverage OWCs using SMF-based transceivers and coherent transmission is demonstrated. A record data rate of 418 Gb/s and 209 Gb/s with a wide FOV of θ_FOV=±30° and θ_FOV=±20°, respectively, is shown at a free space range of 3 m. To the best of our knowledge, this is the fastest demonstration of an indoor wireless link that offers practical room-scale coverage. The automated alignment of this FWF link is also demonstrated with the design and implementation a mm-accurate localization and tracking system. Finally, architectures for point-to-multipoint communications are explored in order to adapt the system to multiple users.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:31:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Raphael Montali da Assumpcao.pdf: 4212017 bytes, checksum: 0f3ac0dc977e7baf5d1589a58db83ffd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-06-29 / This study analyzes the impact that Radio over Fiber technology, functioning as a transport network, causes to a Wireless Sensor Network. Phenomena present in Radio over Fiber system tnet degrade the RF signal are analyzed. For this impact verification a test bed was assembled with wireless sensors operating at the 915 MHz Range and RoF equipments. To avoid uncertainties caused by effects in radio signal propagation a channel emulation system capable of varying the attenuation imposed to the radio signal was used. In the conducted tests packet loss and received signal strength at the receiver were measured for two different modulations: FSK and MSK. In the first experiment the Wireless Sensor Network was tested without the introduction of the Radio over Fiber system, those results were used as a reference for the other tests. /n the second experiment tests with the introduction of a Radio over Fiber system creating a covering cell were made. In the third experiment a second RoF equipment was introduced to create a second covering cell. Ali the tests were repeated using a Low Noise Amplifier. The results show that it is possible to use RoF in a WSN implementation. However, the impact at the penalty introduced by the RoF on the cell covering distance was high, showing that in fact there is an impact in the covering distance. It was shown that the introduction of new covering cells adds additional penalty because of characteristics of the RoF. The introduction of the LNA was shown to be effective for fighting the degradation added by the RoF system. / O presente trabalho analisa o impacto que a tecnologia de R?dio Sobre Fibra, funcionando como rede de transporte, provoca a uma Rede de Sensores Sem Fio. S?o analisados os fen?menos presentes no sistema de r?dio sobre fibra que degradam o sinal de r?dio frequ?ncia. Para verifica??o deste impacto foi montada uma estrutura de testes com sensores Sem Fio operando na faixa de 915 MHz e equipamentos de RoF. Para evitar incertezas causadas por efeitos de propaga??o do sinal de r?dio foi utilizada uma bancada de emula??o de canal com capacidade para varia??o da atenua??o do sinal r?dio. Nos testes realizados foram medidas a perda de pacotes e a pot?ncia de sinal recebido na base receptora em duas modula??es diferentes: FSK e MSK. No primeiro experimento foram feitos testes com a Rede de Sensores Sem Fio sem a introdu??o do sistema de R?dio Sobre Fibra, cujos resultados foram utilizados como refer?ncia para os outros testes. No segundo experimento foram feitos testes com a introdu??o de um sistema de RoF criando uma c?lula de cobertura. No terceiro experimento foi introduzido um segundo equipamento de RoF criando uma segunda c?lula de cobertura. Todos os testes foram repetidos com a utiliza??o de um amplificador de baixo ru?do. Os resultados demonstram a possibilidade da implementa??o de RSSF com a utiliza??o de RoF. Entretanto, o impacto da penalidade introduzida pelo RoF na ?rea de cobertura da RSSF foi elevado, demonstrando que de fato existe uma penalidade em termos de dist?ncia de cobertura. Ficou demonstrado que a introdu??o de novas c?lulas acrescenta penaliza??o adicional devido a caracter?sticas do RoF. A introdu??o do LNA demonstrou ser eficaz para combater a degrada??o inserida pelo sistema RoF.