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Deep Learning-Based Link Quality Estimation for RIS-Assisted UAV-Enabled Wireless Communications System

Version 1 : Received: 29 August 2023 / Approved: 30 August 2023 / Online: 30 August 2023 (11:39:45 CEST)

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Tesfaw, B.A.; Juang, R.-T.; Tai, L.-C.; Lin, H.-P.; Tarekegn, G.B.; Nathanael, K.W. Deep Learning-Based Link Quality Estimation for RIS-Assisted UAV-Enabled Wireless Communications System. Sensors 2023, 23, 8041. Tesfaw, B.A.; Juang, R.-T.; Tai, L.-C.; Lin, H.-P.; Tarekegn, G.B.; Nathanael, K.W. Deep Learning-Based Link Quality Estimation for RIS-Assisted UAV-Enabled Wireless Communications System. Sensors 2023, 23, 8041.

Abstract

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become a valuable platform for many applications, including communication networks. UAV-enabled wireless communication faces challenges in complex urban and dynamic environments. UAVs can suffer from power limitations and path losses caused by non-line-of-sight connections, which may hamper better communication performance. To address these issues, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have been proposed as a helpful tool to enhance UAV communication networks. However, due to the high mobility of UAV, complex channel environments, and dynamic RIS configurations, it is challenging to estimate the link quality of ground users. In this paper, we propose a link quality estimation model using a gated recurrent unit (GRU) to assess the link quality of ground users for a multi-user RIS-assisted UAV-enabled wireless communication system. Our proposed framework uses a time series of user channel data and RIS phase shift information to estimate the quality of the link for each ground user. Simulation results showed that the proposed GRU model effectively and accurately estimates the link quality of the ground users in the RIS-assisted UAV-enabled wireless communication network.

Keywords

Link quality estimation; reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS); gated recurrent unit (GRU); unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).

Subject

Computer Science and Mathematics, Computer Networks and Communications

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