Paper Info
Title
An Experimental Analysis on Drone-Mounted Access Points for Improved Latency-Reliability
Abstract
ABSTRACTThe anticipated densification of contemporary communications infrastructure expects the use of drone small cells (DSCs). Thus, we experimentally evaluate the capability of providing local and personalized coverage with a drone mounted Wi-Fi access point that uses the nearby LTE infrastructure as a backhaul in areas with mixed line of sight (LoS) and Non-LoS (NLoS) links to the local cellular infrastructure. To assess the potential of DSCs for reliable and low latency communication of outdoor users, we measure the channel quality and the total round trip latency of the system. For a drone following the ground user, the DSC-provided network extends the coverage for an extra 6.4% when compared to the classical LTE-direct link. Moreover, the DSC setup provides latencies that are consistently smaller than 50 ms for 95% of the experiment. Within the coverage of the LTE-direct connection, we observed a latency ceiling of 120 ms for 95% reliability of the LTE-direct connection. The highest latency observed for the DSC system was 1200 ms, while the LTE-direct link never exceeded 500 ms. As such, DSC setups are not only essential in NLoS situations, but consistently improve the latency of users in outdoor scenarios.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3469259.3470489
Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
1
0.36
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Igor Donevski121.39
Christian Raffelsberger210.36
Micha Sende310.36
Aymen Fakhreddine410.36
Jimmy Jessen Nielsen515616.82