Mobility-Aware Bivariate Line-of-Sight Probability for Air-to-Ground Communications Using Millimeter and Terahertz Waves

This paper presents a mobility-aware bivariate line-of-sight (LoS) probability model for millimeter waves and terahertz air-to-ground communication. Current literature does not provide LoS models that consider using directional antennas on the unmanned aerial vehicle that acts as an air base station...

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Main Authors: Basheer Ameen Raddwan, Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Baltah
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Published: IEEE 2025-01-01
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description This paper presents a mobility-aware bivariate line-of-sight (LoS) probability model for millimeter waves and terahertz air-to-ground communication. Current literature does not provide LoS models that consider using directional antennas on the unmanned aerial vehicle that acts as an air base station (airBS). Furthermore, in the context of having large stationary blockers, the impact of ground user terminals’ (gUTs) and airBSs’ mobility remains unexplored. To simulate the ray-tracing between gUTs and airBSs in both scenarios where the airBSs have omnidirectional or directional antennas, we develop a game engine-based synthetic urban layout generator. We analyze ray-tracing as a bivariate probability and formulated a unified joint probability function that could predict the LoS probability for omnidirectional and directional scenarios. The proposed model outperformed the existing models in the omnidirectional scenario. We also present a benchmark for the model’s performance in the directional scenario. Moreover, using ray-tracing simulation, we examine the influence of mobility on the service time, also known as the sojourn time, and developed two cubic polynomial models to forecast the service time for any urban layout that aligns with the ITU-R P.1410-5 build-up parameters.
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spelling doaj-art-be2e2a928fc84289865521e8dce5fd122025-08-20T03:13:43ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362025-01-011312391312393010.1109/ACCESS.2025.358289011050367Mobility-Aware Bivariate Line-of-Sight Probability for Air-to-Ground Communications Using Millimeter and Terahertz WavesBasheer Ameen Raddwan0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5479-7703Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Baltah1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9549-8873Department of Information Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and IT, Sana’a University, Sanaa, YemenDepartment of Information Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and IT, Sana’a University, Sanaa, YemenThis paper presents a mobility-aware bivariate line-of-sight (LoS) probability model for millimeter waves and terahertz air-to-ground communication. Current literature does not provide LoS models that consider using directional antennas on the unmanned aerial vehicle that acts as an air base station (airBS). Furthermore, in the context of having large stationary blockers, the impact of ground user terminals’ (gUTs) and airBSs’ mobility remains unexplored. To simulate the ray-tracing between gUTs and airBSs in both scenarios where the airBSs have omnidirectional or directional antennas, we develop a game engine-based synthetic urban layout generator. We analyze ray-tracing as a bivariate probability and formulated a unified joint probability function that could predict the LoS probability for omnidirectional and directional scenarios. The proposed model outperformed the existing models in the omnidirectional scenario. We also present a benchmark for the model’s performance in the directional scenario. Moreover, using ray-tracing simulation, we examine the influence of mobility on the service time, also known as the sojourn time, and developed two cubic polynomial models to forecast the service time for any urban layout that aligns with the ITU-R P.1410-5 build-up parameters.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11050367/Line-of-sight probabilitymobilityair-to-ground communicationmulti-access edge computingray-tracingunmanned aerial vehicles
spellingShingle Basheer Ameen Raddwan
Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Baltah
Mobility-Aware Bivariate Line-of-Sight Probability for Air-to-Ground Communications Using Millimeter and Terahertz Waves
IEEE Access
Line-of-sight probability
mobility
air-to-ground communication
multi-access edge computing
ray-tracing
unmanned aerial vehicles
title Mobility-Aware Bivariate Line-of-Sight Probability for Air-to-Ground Communications Using Millimeter and Terahertz Waves
title_full Mobility-Aware Bivariate Line-of-Sight Probability for Air-to-Ground Communications Using Millimeter and Terahertz Waves
title_fullStr Mobility-Aware Bivariate Line-of-Sight Probability for Air-to-Ground Communications Using Millimeter and Terahertz Waves
title_full_unstemmed Mobility-Aware Bivariate Line-of-Sight Probability for Air-to-Ground Communications Using Millimeter and Terahertz Waves
title_short Mobility-Aware Bivariate Line-of-Sight Probability for Air-to-Ground Communications Using Millimeter and Terahertz Waves
title_sort mobility aware bivariate line of sight probability for air to ground communications using millimeter and terahertz waves
topic Line-of-sight probability
mobility
air-to-ground communication
multi-access edge computing
ray-tracing
unmanned aerial vehicles
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11050367/
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