Drones in B5G/6G Networks as Flying Base Stations

  1. Amponis, Georgios
  2. Lagkas, Thomas
  3. Zevgara, Maria
  4. Katsikas, Georgios
  5. Xirofotos, Thanos
  6. Moscholios, Ioannis
  7. Sarigiannidis, Panagiotis
  8. González Aguilera, Diego 1
  9. Rodríguez-Gonzálvez, Pablo
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

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Revista:
Drones

ISSN: 2504-446X

Año de publicación: 2022

Volumen: 6

Número: 2

Páginas: 39

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.3390/DRONES6020039 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

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Resumen

Advances in the fields of networking, broadband communications and demand for high-fidelity low-latency last-mile communications have rendered as-efficient-as-possible relaying methods more necessary than ever. This paper investigates the possibility of the utilization of cellular-enabled drones as aerial base stations in next-generation cellular networks. Flying ad hoc networks (FANETs) acting as clusters of deployable relays for the on-demand extension of broadband connectivity constitute a promising scenario in the domain of next-generation high-availability communications. Matters of mobility, handover efficiency, energy availability, optimal positioning and node localization as well as respective multi-objective optimizations are discussed in detail, with their core ideas defining the structure of the work at hand. This paper examines improvements to the existing cellular network core to support novel use-cases and lower the operation costs of diverse ad hoc deployments

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