On the End-to-End Latency of Cellular-Connected UAV Communications
(2021) 15th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2021 In 15th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2021- Abstract
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used in military and civilian fields in the recent years. In order to give support to the vast amount of added value services, UAV communications have become a hot spot for the fifth generation (5G) and have a very broad development prospect. In this paper, based on the channel modeling results obtained by actual measurements, we evaluate the end-to-end delay of Long Term Evolution (LTE) for air-to-ground (A2G) communications in suburban environments. The results show that, in order to satisfy the reliability and latency requirements of the critical communications, the base stations (BSs) deployment and the flight routes need to be carefully considered since small increments on the flight... (More)
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used in military and civilian fields in the recent years. In order to give support to the vast amount of added value services, UAV communications have become a hot spot for the fifth generation (5G) and have a very broad development prospect. In this paper, based on the channel modeling results obtained by actual measurements, we evaluate the end-to-end delay of Long Term Evolution (LTE) for air-to-ground (A2G) communications in suburban environments. The results show that, in order to satisfy the reliability and latency requirements of the critical communications, the base stations (BSs) deployment and the flight routes need to be carefully considered since small increments on the flight distance can have great influence on the packet success rate and the end-to-end delay. The obtained results are of great importance to evaluate if current LTE deployments can support critical communications for cellular-connected UAVs.
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- author
- Zhu, Hong ; Rodriguez-Pineiro, Jose ; Huang, Zeyu ; Dominguez-Bolano, Tomas ; Cai, Xuesong LU ; Yin, Xuefeng ; Lee, Juyul and Matolak, David
- publishing date
- 2021-03-22
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- air-to-ground communications, end-to-end delay, Long Term Evolution (LTE), Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
- host publication
- 15th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2021
- series title
- 15th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2021
- article number
- 9411072
- publisher
- IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- conference name
- 15th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2021
- conference location
- Dusseldorf, Germany
- conference dates
- 2021-03-22 - 2021-03-26
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85105474694
- ISBN
- 9788831299022
- DOI
- 10.23919/EuCAP51087.2021.9411072
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Funding Information: This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61850410529, 61971313), the IITP grant funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (2017-0-00066), the Xunta de Galicia (ED431C 2020/15, ED431G2019/01), the Agencia Estatal de Investigación of Spain (RED2018-102668-T, PID2019-104958RB-C42) and ERDF funds of the EU (FEDER Galicia 2014-2020 & AEI/FEDER Programs, UE). The financial support by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs and the National Foundation for Research, Technology and Development is gratefully Publisher Copyright: © 2021 EurAAP.
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- 58c6a170-a3d6-4357-add7-a4466bf0425a
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- 2021-11-22 22:37:59
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abstract = {{<p>Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used in military and civilian fields in the recent years. In order to give support to the vast amount of added value services, UAV communications have become a hot spot for the fifth generation (5G) and have a very broad development prospect. In this paper, based on the channel modeling results obtained by actual measurements, we evaluate the end-to-end delay of Long Term Evolution (LTE) for air-to-ground (A2G) communications in suburban environments. The results show that, in order to satisfy the reliability and latency requirements of the critical communications, the base stations (BSs) deployment and the flight routes need to be carefully considered since small increments on the flight distance can have great influence on the packet success rate and the end-to-end delay. The obtained results are of great importance to evaluate if current LTE deployments can support critical communications for cellular-connected UAVs.</p>}},
author = {{Zhu, Hong and Rodriguez-Pineiro, Jose and Huang, Zeyu and Dominguez-Bolano, Tomas and Cai, Xuesong and Yin, Xuefeng and Lee, Juyul and Matolak, David}},
booktitle = {{15th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2021}},
isbn = {{9788831299022}},
keywords = {{air-to-ground communications; end-to-end delay; Long Term Evolution (LTE); Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)}},
language = {{eng}},
month = {{03}},
publisher = {{IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.}},
series = {{15th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2021}},
title = {{On the End-to-End Latency of Cellular-Connected UAV Communications}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.23919/EuCAP51087.2021.9411072}},
doi = {{10.23919/EuCAP51087.2021.9411072}},
year = {{2021}},
}