An Experimental Analysis on Drone-Mounted Access Points for Improved Latency-Reliability

Igor Donevski; Christian Raffelsberger; Micha Sende; Aymen Fakhreddine; Jimmy Jessen Nielsen

doi:10.1145/3469259.3470489

An Experimental Analysis on Drone-Mounted Access Points for Improved Latency-Reliability

Igor Donevski^*, Christian Raffelsberger, Micha Sende, Aymen Fakhreddine, Jimmy Jessen Nielsen

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Abstract

The 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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications
Number of pages	6
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	24 Jun 2021
Pages	31-36
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-8599-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3469259.3470489
Publication status	Published - 24 Jun 2021
Event	MobiSys '21: The 19th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services - Virtuel, United States Duration: 24 Jun 2021 → 24 Jun 2021

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Conference	MobiSys '21: The 19th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services
Location	Virtuel
Country/Territory	United States
Period	24/06/2021 → 24/06/2021

Keywords

Drone small cells
Experimental
Latency-reliability
Measurements
UAV
Unmanned aerial vehicles

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Donevski, I, Raffelsberger, C, Sende, M, Fakhreddine, A & Nielsen, JJ 2021, An Experimental Analysis on Drone-Mounted Access Points for Improved Latency-Reliability. in Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 31-36, MobiSys '21: The 19th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, Massachusetts, United States, 24/06/2021. https://doi.org/10.1145/3469259.3470489

An Experimental Analysis on Drone-Mounted Access Points for Improved Latency-Reliability. / Donevski, Igor; Raffelsberger, Christian; Sende, Micha et al.
Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. p. 31-36.

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