Enhanced In-Flight Connectivity for Urban Air Mobility via LEO Satellite Networks
<|reference_start|>Enhanced In-Flight Connectivity for Urban Air Mobility via LEO Satellite Networks: Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is the envisioned future of inter-city aerial transportation. This paper presents a novel, in-flight connectivity link allocation method for UAM, which dynamically switches between terrestrial cellular and Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks based on real-time conditions. Our approach prefers cellular networks for cost efficiency, switching to LEO satellites under poor cellular conditions to ensure continuous UAM connectivity. By integrating real-time metrics like signal strength, network congestion, and flight trajectory into the selection process, our algorithm effectively balances cost, minimum data rate requirements, and continuity of communication. Numerical results validate minimization of data-loss while ensuring an optimal selection from the set of available above-threshold data rates at every time sample. Furthermore, insights derived from our study emphasize the importance of hybrid connectivity solutions in ensuring seamless, uninterrupted communication for future urban aerial vehicles.<|reference_end|>
@article{biswas2024enhanced,
    title={Enhanced In-Flight Connectivity for Urban Air Mobility via LEO Satellite
  Networks},
    author={Karnika Biswas (1), Hakim Ghazzai (1), Abdullah Khanfor (2) and Lokman
  Sboui (3) ((1) CEMSE Division, King Abdullah University of Science and
  Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, (2) Computer Science Department,
  College of Computer Science & Information Systems, Najran University,
  Najran, Saudi Arabia, (3) Systems Engineering Department, 'Ecole de
  technologie sup'erieure ('ETS), University of Qu'ebec, Montr'eal, Canada)},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.07298},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2406.07298},
    primaryClass={cs.ET eess.SP}
}