Coverage Extension as a Service for Flexible 6G Networks Infrastructure

Mickael Maman; Esteban Catte; Mohamed Sana; Merkebu Girmay; Vasilis Maglogiannis; Dries Naudts; Haeyoung Lee; Francois Carrez; Antti Anttonen; Yolanda Fernandez; Javier Moreno; Vasiliki Lamprousi; Vera Stavroulaki

doi:10.1109/GCWkshps56602.2022.10008528

Coverage Extension as a Service for Flexible 6G Networks Infrastructure

Mickael Maman, Esteban Catte, Mohamed Sana, Merkebu Girmay, Vasilis Maglogiannis, Dries Naudts, Haeyoung Lee, Francois Carrez, Antti Anttonen, Yolanda Fernandez, Javier Moreno, Vasiliki Lamprousi, Vera Stavroulaki

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In future 6G wireless networks, it is important to ensure that equal opportunity is offered to citizens and businesses regardless of location with a dynamic and efficient expansion of the infrastructure. Dynamic coverage and connectivity extension mechanisms exploiting multiple types of Mobile Access Points (MAPs) during a short amount of time for covering areas that cannot be easily reached, are developed by DEDICAT 6G project. This service is called Coverage Extension as a Service (CEaaS). This paper proposes a system architecture for CEaaS and the functionalities that the DEDICAT 6G platform will offer. This includes context awareness (i.e. knowledge about users and technology recognition), coverage extension decision making (i.e. MAP and swarm operation) and network operation decision making (i.e. MAP-user association and radio access technology selection). Furthermore, performance results of DEDICAT 6G framework for CEaaS are presented.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2022 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages	1329-1334
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	978-1-6654-5976-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps56602.2022.10008528
Publication status	Published - 8 Dec 2022
Event	2022 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps) - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Duration: 4 Dec 2022 → 8 Dec 2022

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Conference	2022 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)
Period	4/12/22 → 8/12/22

Keywords

6G mobile communication
Road transportation
Wireless networks
Decision making
Warehousing
Systems architecture
Radio access technologies

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Maman, M., Catte, E., Sana, M., Girmay, M., Maglogiannis, V., Naudts, D., Lee, H., Carrez, F., Anttonen, A., Fernandez, Y., Moreno, J., Lamprousi, V., & Stavroulaki, V. (2022). Coverage Extension as a Service for Flexible 6G Networks Infrastructure. In 2022 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps) (pp. 1329-1334). Article 10008528 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps56602.2022.10008528

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