Outage performance analysis of RIS-assisted UAV wireless systems under disorientation and misalignment

TL;DR

This paper evaluates the outage performance of RIS-assisted UAV wireless systems considering disorientation, misalignment, and hardware imperfections, providing new analytical formulas for outage probability and diversity order.

Contribution

It introduces novel closed-form expressions for outage probability and channel characterization under disorientation, misalignment, and hardware imperfections in UAV systems.

Findings

Derived closed-form outage probability expressions.

Identified outage floor due to disorientation and misalignment.

Analyzed diversity order at high SNR.

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze the performance of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wireless system that is affected by mixture-gamma small-scale fading, stochastic disorientation, and misalignment, as well as transceivers hardware imperfections. First, we statistically characterize the end-to-end channel for both cases, i.e., in the absence as well as in the presence of disorientation and misalignment, by extracting closed-form formulas for the probability density function (PDF) and the cumulative distribution function (CDF). Building on the aforementioned expressions, we extract novel closed-form expressions for the outage probability (OP) in the absence and the presence of disorientation and misalignment as well as hardware imperfections. In addition, high signal-to-noise ratio OP approximations are derived, leading to the extraction of the diversity order. Finally, an OP floor due to disorientation and misalignment is presented.