SkyCore
| Autor: | Sampath Rangarajan, Karthikeyan Sundaresan, Z. Morley Mao, Mehrdad Moradi, Eugene Chai |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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General Computer Science
Computer science Distributed computing Interoperability Core network Distributed management ComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMS 02 engineering and technology Base station 0203 mechanical engineering 020204 information systems 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Forwarding plane Wireless ComputerSystemsOrganization_SPECIAL-PURPOSEANDAPPLICATION-BASEDSYSTEMS Mobility management General Environmental Science Radio access network business.industry Network packet 020302 automobile design & engineering 020206 networking & telecommunications Hotspot (Wi-Fi) Key (cryptography) General Earth and Planetary Sciences Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution Robust control business 5G Computer network |
| Zdroj: | MobiCom |
| ISSN: | 1557-7317 0001-0782 |
| DOI: | 10.1145/3434161 |
| Popis: | The advances in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology have empowered mobile operators to deploy LTE (long-term evolution) base stations (BSs) on UAVs and provide on-demand, adaptive connectivity to hotspot venues as well as emergency scenarios. However, today's evolved packet core (EPC) that orchestrates LTE's radio access network (RAN) faces fundamental limitations in catering to such a challenging, wireless, and mobile UAV environment, particularly in the presence of multiple BSs (UAVs). In this work, we argue for and propose an alternate, radical edge EPC design, called SkyCore that pushes the EPC functionality to the extreme edge of the core network---collapses the EPC into a single, lightweight, self-contained entity that is colocated with each of the UAV BS. SkyCore incorporates elements that are designed to address the unique challenges facing such a distributed design in the UAV environment, namely the resource constraints of UAV platforms, and the distributed management of pronounced UAV and UE mobility. We build and deploy a fully functional version of SkyCore on a two-UAV LTE network and showcase its (i) ability to interoperate with commercial LTE BSs as well as smartphones, (ii) support for both hotspot and stand-alone multi-UAV deployments, and (iii) superior control and data plane performance compared to other EPC variants in this environment. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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