RT Journal Article
T1 Statistical Characterisation of the Delay and Performance Analysis in 3D Relay Networks
A1 Hashemi, Hadi
A1 Olyaee, Maryam
A1 Soret, Beatriz
A1 Aguayo-Torres, María del Carmen
A1 Buzzi, Stefano
K1 Comunicaciones digitales
AB This article investigates a multi-tier 3D network that models a hybrid space-air-ground communication system and two main relay scenarios. In the first scenario, the aerial tier, consisting of entities such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or aircrafts, uses the space layer, represented by satellites, to connect to ground User Equipment (UE) devices or ground stations. In the second scenario, the space layer cooperates with satellites in a lower orbit or with aerial devices to communicate with ground-based devices. In both scenarios, it is assumed that the device acting as a relay is distributed throughout its tier according to a Poisson Point Process (PPP), and randomly selected from the coverage area that depends on the position of the source and destination devices. For both scenarios, the paper calculates the distribution function for the link distance, which permits to obtain the average delay of signal propagation. Further, in the paper the outage capacity and ergodic rate expressions for the amplify and forward (AF) and decode and forward (DF) relaying strategies under the shadowed-Rician fading channel model are derived. Also, the asymptotic behavior in the high-SNR regime is analyzed. These novel analytical expressions provide insights of the fundamental performance limits of integrated terrestrial and non-terrestrial wireless networks.
PB IEEE
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/40356
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/40356
LA eng
NO H. Hashemi, M. Olyaee, B. Soret, M. Carmen Aguayo-Torres and S. Buzzi, "Statistical Characterization of the Delay and Performance Analysis in 3-D Relay Networks," in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, vol. 5, pp. 7787-7805, 2024, doi: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2024.3510882
NO Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
NO Junta de Andalucía and the European Fund for Regional Development FEDER
NO Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) of NextGenerationEU
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 19 ene 2026