A Survey of Wireless Networks for Future Aerial COMmunications (FACOM)
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Aygün Baltaci, Ergin Dinc, Mustafa Ozger, Abdulrahman Alabbasi, Cicek Cavdar, Dominic Schupke
2021
Abstract
Electrification turned over a new leaf in aviation by introducing new types
of aerial vehicles along with new means of transportation. Addressing a
plethora of use cases, drones are gaining attention and increasingly appear in
the sky. Emerging concepts of flying taxi enable passengers to be transported
over several tens of kilometers. Therefore, unmanned traffic management systems
are under development to cope with the complexity of future airspace, thereby
resulting in unprecedented communication needs. Moreover, the increase in the
number of commercial airplanes pushes the limits of voice-oriented
communications, and future options such as single-pilot operations demand
robust connectivity. In this survey, we provide a comprehensive review and
vision for enabling the connectivity applications of aerial vehicles utilizing
current and future communication technologies. We begin by categorizing the
connectivity use cases per aerial vehicle and analyzing their connectivity
requirements. By reviewing more than 500 related studies, we aim for a
comprehensive approach to cover wireless communication technologies, and
provide an overview of recent findings from the literature toward the
possibilities and challenges of employing the wireless communication standards.
After analyzing the network architectures, we list the open-source testbed
platforms to facilitate future investigations. This study helped us observe
that while numerous works focused on cellular technologies for aerial
platforms, a single wireless technology is not sufficient to meet the stringent
connectivity demands of the aerial use cases. We identified the need of further
investigations on multi-technology network architectures to enable robust
connectivity in the sky. Future works should consider suitable technology
combinations to develop unified aerial networks that can meet the diverse
quality of service demands.
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