TY - GEN
T1 - UAV Aided Data Dissemination for Multi-hop Backhauling in RAN
AU - Shi, Xiaoyan
AU - Thompson, John S.
AU - Safari, Majid
AU - Huang, Shenjie
AU - Liu, Rongke
N1 - Acceptance date set to exclude from REF OA Policy
PY - 2019/10/24
Y1 - 2019/10/24
N2 - Emerging applications in the radio access network (RAN), such as proactive caching and the massive machine type communications, will generate traffic with a Large Volume of data but can tolerate long Transmission Delay (LVTD). Together with a rapid growth of overall traffic demand, traffic with LVTD features brings lots of challenges to the backhaul in RANs. In this paper, we study how to schedule traffic in multi-hop backhaul networks with the help of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), In the proposed system, the UAVs are employed to establish broadband connections with the ground terminals through free-space optical links and serve as data collectors between terrestrial access points so as to alleviate the communication burden on the terrestrial network. Through numerical simulations, it is demonstrated that the novel network scheduling scheme combined with dynamic UAV path planning can provide significant performance gain.
AB - Emerging applications in the radio access network (RAN), such as proactive caching and the massive machine type communications, will generate traffic with a Large Volume of data but can tolerate long Transmission Delay (LVTD). Together with a rapid growth of overall traffic demand, traffic with LVTD features brings lots of challenges to the backhaul in RANs. In this paper, we study how to schedule traffic in multi-hop backhaul networks with the help of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), In the proposed system, the UAVs are employed to establish broadband connections with the ground terminals through free-space optical links and serve as data collectors between terrestrial access points so as to alleviate the communication burden on the terrestrial network. Through numerical simulations, it is demonstrated that the novel network scheduling scheme combined with dynamic UAV path planning can provide significant performance gain.
KW - Delay-tolerant traffic
KW - dynamic programming
KW - network scheduling
KW - unmanned aerial vehicles
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074933509&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/UCET.2019.8881868
DO - 10.1109/UCET.2019.8881868
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85074933509
T3 - 2019 UK/China Emerging Technologies, UCET 2019
BT - 2019 UK/China Emerging Technologies, UCET 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
T2 - 2019 UK/China Emerging Technologies, UCET 2019
Y2 - 21 August 2019 through 22 August 2019
ER -