Recently, companies have increasingly focused on developing new technologies for urban air mobility using flying cars to help reduce road congestion. However, the seamless integration of flying cars with ground-based vehicles within the 5G network, where ground vehicles can support flying cars with transit functions, has not been thoroughly investigated. Both flying and ground-based cars require various services, such as autonomous driving/piloting, path planning, and remote diagnostics. Supporting these services in 5G networks is challenging due to the high mobility of the vehicles and the stringent network latency requirements. Network slicing offers a promising solution, but comprehensive research on integrating flying and ground-based cars within network slicing is still missing from the literature.
This paper proposes a new approach for connecting ground-based and flying cars to 5G networks serving urban areas in the 5G Open RAN environment.
Ndikumana A, Nguyen KK, Cheriet M. 5G Open RAN-Based Network Slicing for Connecting Ground-Based and Flying Cars Serving Urban Areas. IEEE International Conference on Communications 2024 Jun 9 (pp. 1764-1769). IEEE.
