3D Aerial Highway: The Key Enabler of the Retail Industry Transformation
| Autor: | Abbas Yongacoglu, Nesrine Cherif, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Wael Jaafar |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Signal Processing (eess.SP)
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Computer Networks and Communications Computer science ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION Context (language use) ComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMS 02 engineering and technology Systems and Control (eess.SY) Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Systems and Control Bottleneck 020210 optoelectronics & photonics 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering FOS: Electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Signal Processing business.industry Wireless network 020206 networking & telecommunications Computer Science Applications Retail industry Transformation (function) Enabling Key (cryptography) Telecommunications business |
| Popis: | The retail industry is already facing an inevitable transformation worldwide, and with the current pandemic situation, it is even accelerating. Indeed, consumer habits are shifting from brick-and-mortar stores to online shopping. The bottleneck in the end-to-end online shopping experience remains the efficient and quick delivery of goods to consumers. In this context, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology is seen as a potential solution to address cargo delivery issues. Hence, the number of cargo-UAVs is expected to skyrocket in the next few decades and the airspace to become densely crowded. To successfully deploy UAVs for mass cargo delivery, seamless and reliable cellular connectivity for highly mobile UAVs is required. There is an urgent need for organized and connected routes in the sky. Like highways for cargo trucks, 3D routes in the airspace should be designed for cargo-UAVs to fulfill their operations safely and efficiently. We refer to these routes as 3D aerial highway. In this paper, we thoroughly investigate the feasibility of the aerial highways paradigm. First, we discuss the motivations and concerns of the aerial highway paradigm. Then, we present our vision of the 3D aerial highway framework. Finally, we present related connectivity issues and their potential solutions. Accepted for publication in IEEE Communications Magazine: Mobile Communications and Networks Series |
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