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6G in the sky: On‐demand intelligence at the edge of 3D networks (Invited paper)
- Source :
- ETRI Journal, UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), ETRI Journal, Vol 42, Iss 5, Pp 643-657 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2020.
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Abstract
- Sixth generation will exploit satellite, aerial, and terrestrial platforms jointly to improve radio access capability and unlock the support of on-demand edge cloud services in three-dimensional (3D) space, by incorporating mobile edge computing (MEC) functionalities on aerial platforms and low-orbit satellites. This will extend the MEC support to devices and network elements in the sky and forge a space-borne MEC, enabling intelligent, personalized, and distributed on-demand services. End users will experience the impression of being surrounded by a distributed computer, fulfilling their requests with apparently zero latency. In this paper, we consider an architecture that provides communication, computation, and caching (C3) services on demand, anytime, and everywhere in 3D space, integrating conventional ground (terrestrial) base stations and flying (non-terrestrial) nodes. Given the complexity of the overall network, the C3 resources and management of aerial devices need to be jointly orchestrated via artificial intelligence-based algorithms, exploiting virtualized network functions dynamically deployed in a distributed manner across terrestrial and non-terrestrial nodes. European Union in the Horizon 2020 EU-Korea project 5G-ALLSTAR, GA no. 815323, by the Institute for Information & Communications Technology Promotion (IITP) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIT No. 2018-0-00175) and by Grant No. P102-18-27023S, funded by the Czech Science Foundation.
- Subjects :
- General Computer Science
Non-terrestrial communications
satellite
lcsh:TK7800-8360
Virtual computer systems
Library science
3D connectivity
02 engineering and technology
3D services
lcsh:Telecommunication
Intel·ligència computacional
lcsh:TK5101-6720
Ordinadors, Xarxes d' -- Disseny i construcció
Political science
On demand
unmanned aerial vehicle
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
media_common.cataloged_instance
non‐terrestrial communications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
European union
3d services
5g
Computer networks -- Design and construction
Sistemes virtuals (Informàtica)
6G
media_common
Computational intelligence
lcsh:Electronics
High-altitude platform stations
020206 networking & telecommunications
Unmanned aerial vehicle
high‐altitude platform stations
b5g
Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Processament del senyal [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC]
B5G
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
3d connectivity
Satellite
Information and Communications Technology
Mobile edge computing
Informàtica::Intel·ligència artificial [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC]
020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
mobile edge computing
5G
6g
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 22337326 and 12256463
- Volume :
- 42
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- ETRI Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8be2756a3b3485498000bf0136c18e39