UAV Network and lot in the sky for Future Smart Cities

被引:92
作者
Gi, Fei [1 ]
Zhu, Xuetian [1 ]
Mang, Ge [1 ]
Kadoch, Michel [2 ]
Li, Wei [3 ]
机构
[1] China Telecom Corp Ltd, Beijing, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Quebec, Ecole Technol Super, Montreal, PQ, Canada
[3] Northern Illinois Univ, De Kalb, IL 60115 USA
来源
IEEE NETWORK | 2019年 / 33卷 / 02期
关键词
Economics - 5G mobile communication systems - Smart city - Internet of things;
D O I
10.1109/MNET.2019.1800250
中图分类号
TP3 [计算技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
The paradigm of smart cities links the industry of telecommunications directly to sustainable economic growth and high quality of life. To meet this trend, this article develops a 5G IoT network with UAVs for future smart city architecture. We particularly emphasize IoT in the sky in a bid to unify the global world via heterogeneous smart devices through 3D connectivity. In our design, UAVs form a 5G hierarchical IoT network in the sky by connecting to a number of base stations on the ground. Simulation results reveal that the leader UAV has a significant impact on the performance of the whole system, and the proposed approach has an obvious advantage over the existing ones.
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页码:96 / 101
页数:6
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