TY - GEN
T1 - Study of Energy Consumption of UAVs to Temporarily Assist Wireless Communication Systems
AU - Ibarra, Luis
AU - Rivero-Angeles, Mario E.
AU - Orea-Flores, Izlian Y.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Cellular systems are typically designed to provide high coverage in a certain region with low blocking probability (0.02 or lower) in order to provide an adequate Quality of Service (QoS). However, when traffic peaks occur, this blocking probability increases beyond this acceptable value and the system offers an unacceptable QoS. In order to avoid the installation of additional channels in the base station, that would be active all the time, even when the traffic load is low, the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can reduce energy consumption and alleviate traffic from the base station temporarily. We believe that this alternative is aligned with Green Communication Networks while efficiently solving the problem of higher traffic loads due to abnormal user concentrations. UAVs can also be used to assist WSNs by gathering information directly from the nodes, avoiding expensive transmissions to a fix far away sink. To this end, we develop a simulation model to calculate the hovering times of different commercial UAVs to evaluate the possibility of using these mobile base stations and sinks in future applications in wireless communications systems.
AB - Cellular systems are typically designed to provide high coverage in a certain region with low blocking probability (0.02 or lower) in order to provide an adequate Quality of Service (QoS). However, when traffic peaks occur, this blocking probability increases beyond this acceptable value and the system offers an unacceptable QoS. In order to avoid the installation of additional channels in the base station, that would be active all the time, even when the traffic load is low, the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can reduce energy consumption and alleviate traffic from the base station temporarily. We believe that this alternative is aligned with Green Communication Networks while efficiently solving the problem of higher traffic loads due to abnormal user concentrations. UAVs can also be used to assist WSNs by gathering information directly from the nodes, avoiding expensive transmissions to a fix far away sink. To this end, we develop a simulation model to calculate the hovering times of different commercial UAVs to evaluate the possibility of using these mobile base stations and sinks in future applications in wireless communications systems.
KW - Cellular systems
KW - Energy consumption
KW - Hovering times
KW - UAVs
KW - Wireless Sensor Networks
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85142760447&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-18082-8_27
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-18082-8_27
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:85142760447
SN - 9783031180811
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 410
EP - 421
BT - Telematics and Computing - 11th International Congress, WITCOM 2022, Proceedings
A2 - Mata-Rivera, Miguel Félix
A2 - Zagal-Flores, Roberto
A2 - Barria-Huidobro, Cristian
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 11th International Congress of Telematics and Computing, WITCOM 2022
Y2 - 7 November 2022 through 11 November 2022
ER -