Future of Ultra-Dense Networks Beyond 5G: Harnessing Heterogeneous Moving Cells
Abstract
For the past 40 years, cellular industry has been relying on static radio access deployments with gross over-provisioning. However, to meet the exponentially growing volumes of irregular data, the very notion of a cell will have to be rethought to allow them be (re-)configured on-demand and in automated manner. This work puts forward a vision of moving networks to match dynamic user demand with network access supply in the beyond-5G cellular systems. The resulting adaptive and flexible network infrastructures will leverage intelligent capable devices (e.g., cars and drones) by employing appropriate user involvement schemes. This work is a recollection of our efforts in this space with the goal to contribute a comprehensive research agenda. Particular attention is paid to quantifying the network performance scaling and session continuity gains with ultra-dense moving cells. Our findings argue for non-incremental benefits of integrating moving access points on a par with conventional (static) cellular access infrastructure.
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@article{arxiv.1706.05197,
title = {Future of Ultra-Dense Networks Beyond 5G: Harnessing Heterogeneous Moving Cells},
author = {Sergey Andreev and Vitaly Petrov and Mischa Dohler and Halim Yanikomeroglu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.05197},
year = {2019}
}
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7 pages, 5 figures, accepted to IEEE Communications Magazine, 2019. The copyright may be transferred without further notice after which this version may not be longer available