Research Projects

Tactile internet enabled Drone Control over LTE for Ultra-Dense Cloud Drone Networks

Funding Body: National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia and COST Action IRACON for 5G, Sept 2017-Sept 2018.

This project focusses on replacing Ultra-Dense Networks (UDNs), developing to compact the cellular architecture to fulfil rapid communication traffic growth, with Ultra-Dense Cloud Drone Networks (UDCDNs). This system is on-demand, flexible and easily deployable which reduces the total cost of ownership of mobile oprators. This project deals with PHY and MAC layer tasks such as waveform design, numerology and frame structure design for LTE-A and LTE Pro Grid, Interference management, Drone trajectory planning, Handover management, Radio Resource allocation and management, etc. The concept of tactile internet enabled drone control is investigated and implemented with 5G waveforms over a fast time varying communication channel with appropriate channel coding to reduce the latency. The work is implemented on an SDR for generating the proof of concepts.

Advanced Connectivity Platform for Vertical Segment (ACTIVE)

Funding Body: European Union, April 2016-April 2017.

ACTIVE provides a unified approach for developers and industry to support the widespread growth in Internet of Things. ACTIVE addresses the IoT market, which currently is in its early stages, and dominated by domain-specific platforms, proprietary architectures and vertically divided technology silos. ACTIVE enables crossing these divisions by offering a unified approach consisting of end-to-end components and solutions. A special focus is set on connectivity, middleware, device management and privacy & security, which are provided as a set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

ACTIVE is the sum of the following tasks:

• Connectivity
• Middleware layer and APIs
• Management of devices and gateway
• Security and privacy modules and APIs
• Vertical Applications