A Novel Airborne Self-organising Architecture for 5G+ Networks
2017 IEEE 86th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall)(2017)
摘要
Network Flying Platforms (NFPs) such as unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned balloons or drones flying at low/medium/high altitude can be employed to enhance network coverage and capacity by deploying a swarm of flying platforms that implement novel radio resource management techniques. In this paper, we propose a novel layered architecture where NFPs, of various types and flying at low/medium/high layers in a swarm of flying platforms, are considered as an integrated part of the future cellular networks to inject additional capacity and expand the coverage for exceptional scenarios (sports events, concerts, etc.) and hard-to-reach areas (rural or sparsely populated areas). Successful roll-out of the proposed architecture depends on several factors including, but are not limited to: network optimisation for NFP placement and association, safety operations of NFP for network/equipment security, and reliability for NFP transport and control/signaling mechanisms. In this work, we formulate the optimum placement of NFP at a Lower Layer (LL) by exploiting the airborne Self-organising Network (SON) features. Our initial simulations show the NFP-LL can serve more User Equipment (UE)s using this placement technique.
更多查看译文
关键词
Airborne SON,SG plus wireless networks,radio access network (RAN),networked flying platforms (NFPs),unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV),drones,low altitude platform (LAP),medium altitude platform (MAP),high altitude platform (HAP)
AI 理解论文
溯源树
样例
生成溯源树,研究论文发展脉络