Reliable M2M/IoT data delivery from FANETs via satellite

Abstract

Summary The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is rising in several application fields. This work deals with the communication challenges in UAV swarms, or flying ad hoc network (FANET), when taking into account non–line‐of‐sight scenarios. The use of satellites is a necessity in such operating conditions; thus, this work provides architectural considerations and performance assessments when several (FANETs) share an uplink random access satellite channel, fed with M2M/IoT traffic generated from on‐board sensors, to be reliably delivered to a remote ground destination.

Space-Air-Ground Integrated 6G Wireless Communication Networks: A Review of Antenna Technologies and Application Scenarios

“…The work in [212] highlights that the terrestrial infrastructure, in its current state, may be insufficient to guarantee 5G Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in some scenarios, for instance, in providing ubiquitous coverage, or in the case of infrastructure unavailability, thus requiring the use of aerospace solutions to increase both the resilience and the availability of the network, in turn improving the Quality of Experience (QoE) perceived by users. This is particularly true for IoT scenarios [198,212,213] in which both resilience and network availability may be key requirements, as in the case of smart grids [200]. The different roles and equipment envisaged for IoT devices in 5G scenarios are analyzed in [212] when considering the joint use of satellites, UAVs, and ground nodes, proposing UAVs to act as 5G User Equipment (UE), as base stations (5G-gNBs), or as transparent relay nodes.…”

“…Three reference scenarios, i.e., search and rescue, surveillance and monitoring, and goods delivery, are mentioned in [223] involving a Flying Ad Hoc Network (FANET) and nanoSATs. The case of Non-Radio-Line-of-Sight (NRLoS) conditions in a dispersed FANET is covered in [213], foreseeing a back-haul via satellite to deliver data.…”