TY - GEN
T1 - Enhancing Emergency Communications via UAV-Assisted Home-Independent Broadband Mobile Networks
AU - Zhang, Yiping
AU - Shi, Haobin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Natural disasters often lead to significant communication breakdowns due to direct damage and indirect effects on communication infrastructure. Advances in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology, combined with its integration into wireless networks, present promising avenues for mitigating these challenges. However, a primary limitation of current solutions is that UAV-carried base stations are tied exclusively to a single telecommunications provider, limiting service access to subscribers of that provider and excluding others, particularly affecting user equipment (UE) in disaster zones. To overcome this barrier, we propose a UAV-assisted home-independent broadband mobile communication network that allows UEs from multiple operators to connect to a unified network and access broadband services. We have developed the architecture for this network and a signaling process that enables UEs to connect to this home-independent cellular network. This architecture allows UEs associated with various telecom operators to join the proposed network and establish data links efficiently. Extensive simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed network architecture, showing good performance in signal coverage, packet transmission rate, round-trip time, and signal strength, which shows that our proposed scheme works very well.
AB - Natural disasters often lead to significant communication breakdowns due to direct damage and indirect effects on communication infrastructure. Advances in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology, combined with its integration into wireless networks, present promising avenues for mitigating these challenges. However, a primary limitation of current solutions is that UAV-carried base stations are tied exclusively to a single telecommunications provider, limiting service access to subscribers of that provider and excluding others, particularly affecting user equipment (UE) in disaster zones. To overcome this barrier, we propose a UAV-assisted home-independent broadband mobile communication network that allows UEs from multiple operators to connect to a unified network and access broadband services. We have developed the architecture for this network and a signaling process that enables UEs to connect to this home-independent cellular network. This architecture allows UEs associated with various telecom operators to join the proposed network and establish data links efficiently. Extensive simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed network architecture, showing good performance in signal coverage, packet transmission rate, round-trip time, and signal strength, which shows that our proposed scheme works very well.
KW - Emergency communications
KW - home-independent communication
KW - multi-operator networks
KW - unmanned aerial vehicle
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85203187295&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-97-7244-5_37
DO - 10.1007/978-981-97-7244-5_37
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:85203187295
SN - 9789819772438
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 427
EP - 437
BT - Web and Big Data - 8th International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2024, Proceedings
A2 - Zhang, Wenjie
A2 - Yang, Zhengyi
A2 - Wang, Xiaoyang
A2 - Tung, Anthony
A2 - Zheng, Zhonglong
A2 - Guo, Hongjie
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 8th Asia-Pacific Web and Web-Age Information Management Joint International Conference on Web and Big Data, APWeb-WAIM 2024
Y2 - 30 August 2024 through 1 September 2024
ER -