An NFV-Based Energy Scheduling Algorithm for a 5G Enabled Fleet of Programmable Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

المؤلفون المشاركون

Tipantuña, Christian
Hesselbach, Xavier
Sánchez-Aguero, Victor
Valera, Francisco
Vidal, Ivan
Nogales, Borja

المصدر

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

العدد

المجلد 2019، العدد 2019 (31 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2019)، ص ص. 1-20، 20ص.

الناشر

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

تاريخ النشر

2019-02-20

دولة النشر

مصر

عدد الصفحات

20

التخصصات الرئيسية

تكنولوجيا المعلومات وعلم الحاسوب

الملخص EN

The fifth generation of mobile networks (5G) is expected to provide diverse and stringent improvements such as greater connectivity, bandwidth, throughput, availability, improved coverage, and lower latency.

Considering this, drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Internet of Things (IoT) devices are perfect examples of existing technology that can take advantage of the capabilities provided by 5G technology.

In particular, UAVs are expected to be an important component of 5G networks implementations and support different communication requirements and applications.

UAVs working together with 5G can potentially facilitate the deployment of standalone or complementary communications infrastructures, and, due to its rapid deployment, these solutions are suitable candidates to provide network services in emergency scenarios, natural disasters, and search and rescue missions.

An important consideration in the deployment of a programmable drone fleet is to guarantee the reliability and performance of the services through consistent monitoring, control, and management scheme.

In this regard, the Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) paradigm, a key technology within the 5G ecosystem, can be used to perform automation, management, and orchestration tasks.

In addition, to ensure the coordination and reliability in the communications systems, considering that the UAVs have a finite lifetime and that eventually they must be replaced, a scheduling scheme is needed to guarantee the availability of services and efficient resource utilization.

To this end, in this paper is presented an UAV scheduling scheme which leverages the potential offered by NFV.

The proposed strategy, based on a brute-force search combinatorial algorithm, allows obtaining the optimal scheduling of UAVs in time, in order to efficiently deploy network services.

Simulation results validate the performance of the proposed strategy, by providing the number of drones needed to meet certain levels of service availability.

Furthermore, the strategy allows knowing the sequence of replacement of UAVs to ensure the optimal resource utilization.

نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)

Tipantuña, Christian& Hesselbach, Xavier& Sánchez-Aguero, Victor& Valera, Francisco& Vidal, Ivan& Nogales, Borja. 2019. An NFV-Based Energy Scheduling Algorithm for a 5G Enabled Fleet of Programmable Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing،Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-20.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1212137

نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)

Tipantuña, Christian…[et al.]. An NFV-Based Energy Scheduling Algorithm for a 5G Enabled Fleet of Programmable Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing No. 2019 (2019), pp.1-20.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1212137

نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)

Tipantuña, Christian& Hesselbach, Xavier& Sánchez-Aguero, Victor& Valera, Francisco& Vidal, Ivan& Nogales, Borja. An NFV-Based Energy Scheduling Algorithm for a 5G Enabled Fleet of Programmable Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. 2019. Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-20.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1212137

نوع البيانات

مقالات

لغة النص

الإنجليزية

الملاحظات

Includes bibliographical references

رقم السجل

BIM-1212137