Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication for Aerial Vehicles via Multi-Connectivity
2022 (English)In: 2022 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications and 6G Summit, EuCNC/6G Summit 2022, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2022, p. 166-171Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Aerial vehicles (AVs) such as electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) make aerial passenger transportation a reality in urban environments. However, their communication connectivity is still under research to realize their safe and full-scale operation, which requires stringent end-to-end (E2E) reliability and delay. In this paper, we evaluate reliability and delay for the downlink communication of AVs, i.e., remote piloting, control/telemetry traffic of AVs. We investigate direct air-to-ground (DA2G) and air-to-air (A2A) communication technologies, along with high altitude platforms (HAPs) to explore the conditions of how multi-connectivity (MC) options satisfy the demanding E2E connectivity requirements under backhaul link bottleneck. Our considered use case is ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) under the finite blocklength (FBL) regime due to the nature of downlink control communication to AVs. In our numerical study, we find that providing requirements by single connectivity to AVs is very challenging due to the line-of-sight (LoS) interference and reduced gains of downtilt ground base station (BS) antenna. We also find that even with very efficient interference mitigation, existing cellular networks designed for terrestrial users are not capable of meeting the URLLC requirements calling for MC solutions.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2022. p. 166-171
Series
European Conference on Networks and Communications, ISSN 2475-6490
Keywords [en]
URLLC, multi-connectivity, aerial vehicles, remote piloting, antenna radiation
National Category
Telecommunications
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-319445DOI: 10.1109/EuCNC/6GSummit54941.2022.9815803ISI: 000852896500029Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85134650883OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-319445DiVA, id: diva2:1699860
Conference
Joint Conference of European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) and 6G Summit (6G Summit), JUN 07-10, 2022, Grenoble, France
Note
QC 20220929
Part of proceedings: ISBN 978-1-6654-9871-5
2022-09-292022-09-292022-09-29Bibliographically approved