An Edge Computing Empowered Radio Access Network with UAV-Mounted FSO Fronthaul and Backhaul: Key Challenges and Approaches

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.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  IEEE wireless communications

• Publication date

  2018-03-16

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Engineering

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  DOI 10.1109/MWC.2018.1700419arXiv 1803.06381
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