Summary
IEICE Information and Communication Technology Forum
2016
Session Number:A1
Session:
Number:A1-02
Robotics Facilitates Communications: Laser-Powered Drones with QoS Awareness
George Karagiannidis,
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Publication Date:2016-10-01
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
Integrating hybrid robots and communications applications is a major challenge for both robotics and Comms research & development and a key enabler for a range of advanced services and facilities. Drones (flying robots) have become a viable sensor platform, due to the advances in communication, computation, and energy storage technology, as well as the development in aerodynamic materials. So far, research has focused only on the use of drones in cases of emergency and coverage of remote locations, as well as in cases of environmental incidents and disasters. This talk will present preliminary results of our research on using drones as an economically and operationally efficient alternative for the extension of the current telecommunication infrastructure, in order to meet the future communication needs. Particularly, drones could act as micro Base Stations in order to achieve cell offloading and capacity increase, enabling the service for large numbers of users and devices. The main challenges of regular application of drones for communication purposes are: i) establishment of communication with the backbone, ii) energy sustainability, iii) compatibility with the existing network, iv) QoS awareness.