AN EDGE COMPUTING EMPOWERED RADIO ACCESS NETWORK WITH UAV-MOUNTED FSO FRONTHAUL AND BACKHAUL: KEY CHALLENGES AND APPROACHES

被引：68

作者：

Dong, Yanjie ^{[1
]}

Hassan, Zoheb ^{[1
]}

Cheng, Julian ^{[2
]}

Hossain, Jahangir ^{[3
]}

Leung, Victor C. M. ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] Univ British Columbia, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Vancouver, BC, Canada

[2] Univ British Columbia, Fac Sci Appl, Sch Engn, Vancouver, BC, Canada

[3] Univ British Columbia, Sch Engn, Okanagan Campus, Vancouver, BC, Canada

[4] Univ British Columbia, Elect & Comp Engn, Vancouver, BC, Canada

来源：

IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS | 2018年 / 25卷 / 03期

关键词：

COMMUNICATION;

D O I：

10.1109/MWC.2018.1700419

中图分类号：

TP3 [计算技术、计算机技术];

学科分类号：

0812 ;

摘要：

One promising approach to address the supply-demand mismatch between the terrestrial infrastructure and temporary and/or unexpected traffic demands is to leverage the UAV technologies. Motivated by the recent advancement of UAV technologies and retromodulator-based free space optical communication, we propose a novel edge-computing-empowered radio access network architecture where the fronthaul and backhaul links are mounted on UAVs for rapid event response and flexible deployment. The implementation of hardware and networking technologies for the proposed architecture are investigated. Due to the limited payload and endurance as well as the high mobility of UAVs, research challenges related to communication resource management and recent research progress are reported.

引用

页码：154 / 160

页数：7

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