Polish UTM company DroneRadar has announced it will participate in the 5G!DRONES Project. The principal goal of this Horizon 2020 research and development programme is to trial several UAV use-cases covering eMBB (Enhanced Mobile Broadband), URLLC (Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication), and mMTC (massive Machine Type Communications).
The programme’s kick-off meeting took place at Thales premises in Paris, France from 10 to 12 June 2019 when 20 partners from nine European countries met to discuss actions to be taken,
According to a programme news blog:
“Extensive discussions took place on the drones advances that are expected by 5G, allowing the realization of novel use cases.WP1 will focus in the definition of these novel use cases, which will later on the project lifetime demonstrated at the involved 5G facilities, such as 5GENESIS, 5G-EVE and others… The project will drive the UAV verticals and 5G networks to a win-win position, on one hand by showing that 5G is able to guarantee UAV vertical KPIs, and on the other hand by demonstrating that 5G can support challenging use-cases that put pressure on network resources, such as low-latency and reliable communication, massive number of connections and high bandwidth requirements, simultaneously. 5G!Drones will build on top of the 5G facilities provided by the ICT-17 projects and a number of support sites, while identifying and developing the missing components to trial UAV use-cases.
“The project will feature Network Slicing as the key component to simultaneously run the three types of UAV services on the same 5G infrastructure (including the RAN, back/fronthaul, Core), demonstrating that each UAV application runs independently and does not affect the performance of other UAV applications, while covering different 5G services. While considering verticals will be the main users of 5G!Drones, the project will build a software layer to automate the run of trials that exposes a high level API to request the execution of a trial according to the scenario defined by the vertical, while enforcing the trial’s scenario using the API exposed by the 5G facility, as well as the 5G!Drones enablers API deployed at the facility. Thus, 5G!Drones will enable abstracting all the low-level details to run the trials for a vertical and aims at validating 5G KPIs to support several UAV use-cases via trials using a 5G shared infrastructure, showing that 5G supports the performance requirements of UAVs with several simultaneous UAV applications with different characteristics (eMBB, uRLLC and mMTC). Using the obtained results, 5G!Drones will allow the UAV association to make recommendations for further improvements on 5G.”
(Image: the project’s test sites)
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