ARNET
Airborne Relaying Networks for Reliable and Secure Mobile Communications
| POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029074 PTDC/EEI-COM/29074/2017 47 months (Jul 2018 to Jun 2022) | |
| Summary: | ARNET aims to design wireless communication protocols to enhance network reliability and security in Airborne Relaying NETworks (ARNET) for Long-Term Evolution (LTE) users on the ground. In particular, the UAV carries computation power, a lightweight LTE base station, and a onboard data processor. The UAVs are autonomously interconnected to each other and are building a multi-hop wireless network. Moreover, the UAVs are essentially mobile access points that provide network coverage and bring high data rates to challenging locations where cellular network layout may be underprovisioned. At a high level, the project will perform cutting-edge research across the following streams: i) Develop an understanding of the wireless characteristics of multi-hop communication links (UAV-to-UAV and UAVto-ground LTE users) with heterogeneous data, e.g., text, image, voice, and video. ii) Develop novel communication protocols for hierarchically organised cooperative UAVs to enhance airborne relaying network reliability with guaranteed network connectivity. iii) Develop practical and secure approaches for the airborne relaying network to evade targeted wireless communication attacks, e.g., jamming and spoofing. iv) Build an airborne relaying network testbed to operationally validate reliability and security with the proposed protocols. The final outcome will be a reliable and secure airborne relaying network, which enables real-time data relay for LTE users on the ground. The proposed protocols will be comprehensively evaluated on the testbed in a real-world environment. It will integrate advanced multi-hop wireless communication for relaying heterogeneous data of LTE users while ensuring service area coverage. Consequently, this project is a significant step towards realising the vision of an airborne relaying network. |
| Funding: | Global: 233KEUR, CISTER: 233KEUR |
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| Contact Person at CISTER: | Kai Li |
17, Jun, 2022
Best Paper Award at IWCMC 2022
28, Oct, 2020
CISTER project enhances reliability and security in UAV data networks for IoT devices
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Conference or Workshop Papers/Talks
An Experimental Study of Two-way Ranging Optimization in UWB-based Simultaneous Localization and Wall-Mapping Systems CISTER-TR-220302
Kai Li, Wei Ni, Bo Wei, Mohsen GuizaniIEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) (IWCMC). 30, May to 3, Jun, 2022, IoT & Wireless Sensors. Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Kai Li, Wei Ni, Bo Wei, Mohsen GuizaniIEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) (IWCMC). 30, May to 3, Jun, 2022, IoT & Wireless Sensors. Dubrovnik, Croatia.
PDFConference or Workshop Posters/Demos
An Experimental Localization Testbed based on UWB Channel Impulse Response Measurements CISTER-TR-220204
Kai Li, Wei Ni, Pei ZhangPoster presented in The International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) (IPSN). 4 to 6, May, 2022, Poster session. MILAN, Italy.
Kai Li, Wei Ni, Pei ZhangPoster presented in The International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) (IPSN). 4 to 6, May, 2022, Poster session. MILAN, Italy.
Technical Reports
Machine Learning-Aided Operations and Communications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A Contemporary Survey CISTER-TR-220802
Harrison Kurunathan, Kai Li, Wei Ni, Ekram Hossein, Hailong Huanh2022.
Harrison Kurunathan, Kai Li, Wei Ni, Ekram Hossein, Hailong Huanh2022.