Abstract:
This paper consider a Drone Assisted Network Coded Cooperation (DA-NCC) scenario
for Line of Sight (LoS) channel environments. For analysing the performance of DA-NCC,
Decode-and-Forward (DF) protocol is used at the drone and Selection Combining (SC) is
performed at the destination node. An analytical closed-form formulation of the outage
probability is devised and proven through simulations to assess network performance of
the DA-NCC system. In order to have a better understanding of deterministic networks, a
discussion on capacity and a comparison of alternative rectangular designs for deterministic networks are also presented. Insightful results on the relation among drone height,
DNC-noise and network geometry may play an important role during the performance
analysis of the DA-NCC system. Using closed-form expressions of performance measures,
system designers can quickly examine the efects of various parameters on the DA-NCC
network’s performance.
