TY - GEN
T1 - Millimeter Wave Remote UAV Control and Communications for Public Safety Scenarios
AU - Xia, William
AU - Polese, Michele
AU - Mezzavilla, Marco
AU - Loianno, Giuseppe
AU - Rangan, Sundeep
AU - Zorzi, Michele
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partially supported by the U.S. Department of Commerce/NIST (Award No. 70NANB17H166), by the CloudVeneto initiative, and by the ARL grant DCIST CRA W911NF-17-2-0181.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/6
Y1 - 2019/6
N2 - Communication and video capture from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer significant potential for assisting first responders in remote public safety settings. In such uses, millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless links can provide high throughput and low latency connectivity between the UAV and a remote command center. However, maintaining reliable aerial communication in the mmWave bands is challenging due to the need to support high speed beam tracking and overcome blockage. This paper provides a simulation study aimed at assessing the feasibility of public safety UAV connectivity through a 5G link at 28 GHz. Real flight motion traces are captured during maneuvers similar to those expected in public safety settings. The motions traces are then incorporated into a detailed mmWave network simulator that models the channel, blockage, beamforming and full 3GPP protocol stack. We show that 5G mmWave communications can deliver throughput up to 1 Gbps with consistent sub ms latency when the base station is located near the mission area, enabling remote offloading of the UAV control and perception algorithms.
AB - Communication and video capture from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer significant potential for assisting first responders in remote public safety settings. In such uses, millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless links can provide high throughput and low latency connectivity between the UAV and a remote command center. However, maintaining reliable aerial communication in the mmWave bands is challenging due to the need to support high speed beam tracking and overcome blockage. This paper provides a simulation study aimed at assessing the feasibility of public safety UAV connectivity through a 5G link at 28 GHz. Real flight motion traces are captured during maneuvers similar to those expected in public safety settings. The motions traces are then incorporated into a detailed mmWave network simulator that models the channel, blockage, beamforming and full 3GPP protocol stack. We show that 5G mmWave communications can deliver throughput up to 1 Gbps with consistent sub ms latency when the base station is located near the mission area, enabling remote offloading of the UAV control and perception algorithms.
KW - UAV
KW - mmWave
KW - performance evaluation
KW - remote control
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U2 - 10.1109/SAHCN.2019.8824919
DO - 10.1109/SAHCN.2019.8824919
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85073032383
T3 - Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks workshops
BT - 2019 16th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking, SECON 2019
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 16th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking, SECON 2019
Y2 - 10 June 2019 through 13 June 2019
ER -