TY - GEN
T1 - Congestion mitigation in 5G networks using drone relays
AU - Jaziri, Aymen
AU - Nasri, Ridha
AU - Chahed, Tijani
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/9/26
Y1 - 2016/9/26
N2 - With the exponential growth of data traffic in modern mobile networks and the emergence of variety of connected devices, congestion mitigation in cellular networks has become a major concern. Therefore, in this paper, we propose and extensively describe a new drone-based mechanism allowing to relay traffic and improve network performances. Scenarios related to the appearance, disappearance and mobility of the traffic hotspot are thoroughly specified and developed. The proposed solution is efficient in terms of capacity improvement with a good reactivity to the appearance of traffic hotspots. Moreover, the deployed drones are very energy-efficient in the way they operate in the proposed mechanism. This encourages more and more operators to deploy such solutions leveraging their investments.
AB - With the exponential growth of data traffic in modern mobile networks and the emergence of variety of connected devices, congestion mitigation in cellular networks has become a major concern. Therefore, in this paper, we propose and extensively describe a new drone-based mechanism allowing to relay traffic and improve network performances. Scenarios related to the appearance, disappearance and mobility of the traffic hotspot are thoroughly specified and developed. The proposed solution is efficient in terms of capacity improvement with a good reactivity to the appearance of traffic hotspots. Moreover, the deployed drones are very energy-efficient in the way they operate in the proposed mechanism. This encourages more and more operators to deploy such solutions leveraging their investments.
KW - Cellular networks
KW - Congestion mitigation
KW - Drone relays
KW - Mobility mechanism
KW - Traffic hotspot localization
U2 - 10.1109/IWCMC.2016.7577063
DO - 10.1109/IWCMC.2016.7577063
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84994112575
T3 - 2016 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, IWCMC 2016
SP - 233
EP - 238
BT - 2016 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, IWCMC 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 12th IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, IWCMC 2016
Y2 - 5 September 2016 through 9 September 2016
ER -