To address the issues of the increase in the number of communication devices and the co-channel interference existing in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) cooperative communication process, in this paper a multi-UAVs system with multi-channel co-channel interference is constructed. In this system, there is a direct link between the source node and the destination node, the destination employs either selection combining (SC) or maximal ratio combining (MRC) technology to integrate the signals transmitted from the source node and the optimal UAV relay. Considering the correlation between signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) caused by co-channel interferences, the precise expressions for the system outage probabilities with the SC strategy and MRC strategy separately under Nakagami-m fading channels are derived. To further discuss the impact of co-channel interference on the performance of the UAV communication system, the asymptotic outage probability of the system under high signal to noise ratio (SNR) is derived and analyzed in detail. The results show that due to the influence of co-channel interference, the system outage probability exhibits a saturation value in the high signal to noise ratio region; as the Nakagami-m fading parameter increases, the system outage performance is significantly enhanced; with the increase in the number of UAVs, the system outage probability gains more diversity benefits before reaching the saturation value.
在本文搭建的系统模型中,考虑源节点与目的节点间存在直连链路的情况,此时目的节点采用选择合并(Selection combining,SC)技术或最大比合并(Maximal ratio combining,MRC)技术合并接收信号。SC和MRC能够提高接收节点的信号接收质量。文献[16]在解码转发中继系统中,采用基于全信道状态信息的SC实现了全分集。文献[17]提出了适用于多跳无线网络的基于最小路由数的多节点合作MRC系统,在Nakagami-m衰落下研究了MRC合作方案和所提方案再生系统互信息的中断性能。结果表明,MRC合作方案实现了全路由分集增益。文献[18]在单输入多输出窃听信道中,利用MRC/SC方案对接收的多路信号进行处理,向配备M根天线的目的端发送机密消息。
综上所述,本文搭建基于SC/MRC的智能多无人机中继协作通信系统,研究源节点与目的节点存在共道干扰时多无人机中继协作通信系统的性能,建立基于Nakagami-m衰落信道的分析框架,用于评估多无人机中继协作通信网络在共道干扰约束下的系统性能。由于目的节点解码信号时,不同信道信号间存在干扰,导致解码信干噪比(Signal to interference plus noise ratio,SINR)具有相关性。理论分析证明,这种相关性会使该通信系统的分集阶数为0;当无人机数量增多时,系统获得更多的分集增益,中断性能显著提升。
通常衡量信号质量的指标为信噪比(Signal to noise ratio, SNR),其定义为信号功率与噪声功率的比值。本文考虑共道干扰的存在,因此计算解码信号的SINR进行具体的系统性能分析。SINR为信号功率与干扰加噪声功率的比值。其中,干扰加噪声功率是指共道干扰信号和噪声的总功率。因此,和接收信号的SINR分别表示为:
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