1. Using 5G to Bring More than just Bits to Homes
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Konstantinos Banitsas, Yue Zhang, Edgardo Montes de Oca, Bo Tan, John Cosmas, David Aondoakaa, Mikko Valkama, Joonas Sae, Michael Rustell, Tampere University, and Electrical Engineering
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Service (systems architecture) ,Mobilities ,network slicing ,Computer science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,02 engineering and technology ,Communications system ,0502 economics and business ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Economic impact analysis ,Function (engineering) ,media_common ,050210 logistics & transportation ,Mobile edge computing ,business.industry ,213 Electronic, automation and communications engineering, electronics ,autonomous drone swarms ,05 social sciences ,020206 networking & telecommunications ,Drone ,urban and rural area environments ,Link level ,mobile edge computing ,Telecommunications ,business ,5G - Abstract
Future drone delivery infrastructure and service for distributing goods to inner city and rural areas, by collaborating with the already existing transportation system, has become an important function in the semi-/full-automation process of home deliveries. This has been exacerbated by the current (and possible future) Covid-19 pandemic. This paper presents a new paradigm for a 5G enabled drone delivery system based on ground-aerial integrated mobilities called TWIN that provide a high-quality communication system for increased drone fleet service capacity. We depict the 5G architecture that supports the dual mobilities and emphasize the strategies to ensure reliable, low latency radio link, high accuracy drone positioning together with location management. The increased link level availability coupled with high accuracy location management, allows for a series of new network applications and support the fast creation of drone delivery services. We envision that logistic services on the TWIN concept will have a high societal and economic impact for both urban and rural areas. acceptedVersion
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- 2020