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Shashini Thamarasie Wanniarachchi und Volker Turau. A Fault-Tolerant Distributed Air-to-Ground Communication Architecture for Urban Air Mobility. In In Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT), IEEE, Juni 2023, pp. 639–646. Pafos, Cyprus.
@InProceedings{Telematik_dcoss_2023, author = {Shashini Thamarasie Wanniarachchi and Volker Turau}, title = {A Fault-Tolerant Distributed Air-to-Ground Communication Architecture for Urban Air Mobility}, booktitle = {In Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT)}, pages = {639-646}, publisher = {IEEE}, day = {19-21}, month = jun, year = 2023, location = {Pafos, Cyprus}, }
Abstract: With the increasing demand for urban passenger transportation, the concept urban air mobility (UAM) has gained a lot of research interest. One idea is to employ fully autonomous air crafts. That is, using unmanned and not remotely piloted aerial vehicles as a means of mass transit. Clearly, fully autonomous air taxis constitute a safety critical, time sensitive application. Efficient information management is a prominent requirement and the infrastructure for sensing and fast, reliable communication is the key to mitigate any harm in the aforesaid approach. Nevertheless, failures in such a system are inevitable and need to be addressed. This work investigates the significant aspect of building a fault-tolerant UAM communication network. We introduce a concept of distributed ground station architecture and a protocol for role delegation to improve system availability. This assures an uninterrupted service continuation fulfilling the high standards of safety requirements in an UAM system.
Shashini Thamarasie Wanniarachchi und Volker Turau. A Study on the Influence of 5G Network planning on communication in Urban Air Mobility. In Proceedings of 24th {IEEE} International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, WoWMoM 2023, IEEE, Juni 2023, pp. 394–399. Boston, USA.
@InProceedings{Telematik_wowmom_2023, author = {Shashini Thamarasie Wanniarachchi and Volker Turau}, title = {A Study on the Influence of 5G Network planning on communication in Urban Air Mobility}, booktitle = {Proceedings of 24th {IEEE} International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, WoWMoM 2023}, pages = {394-399}, publisher = {IEEE}, day = {12-15}, month = jun, year = 2023, location = {Boston, USA}, }
Abstract: The emerging implementation of urban air mobility (UAM) is in need of a robust low latency communication system. The key priority is to cope with the required high level of safety assurance. 5G communication standards lay the foundation for a promising communication infrastructure, yet there exists the challenge of connectivity and coverage through the base station network. In this paper, we address this aspect and study the realization of a reliable and efficient 5G base station plan and evaluate its influence on the performance of the UAM communication system through simulations. Our findings can assist in real UAM deployment scenarios to search for the most cost effective radio network planning solution. We focus on the 3d-channel model and on the number and placement of base stations. As a use case we consider the Hamburg metropolitan region.
Jan Berling, Philipp Hastedt, Shashini T. Wanniarachchi, Andreas Vieregg, Carsten Gertz, Volker Turau, Herbert Werner und Volker Gollnick. A Modular Urban Air Mobility Simulation Toolchain with Dynamic Agent Interaction. In Deutscher Luft- und Raumfahrtkongress 2022 (DLRK22), DGLR, September 2022. Dresden, Germany.
@InProceedings{Telematik_dlrk_2022, author = {Jan Berling and Philipp Hastedt and Shashini T. Wanniarachchi and Andreas Vieregg and Carsten Gertz and Volker Turau and Herbert Werner and Volker Gollnick}, title = {A Modular Urban Air Mobility Simulation Toolchain with Dynamic Agent Interaction}, booktitle = {Deutscher Luft- und Raumfahrtkongress 2022 (DLRK22)}, pages = , publisher = {DGLR}, day = {27-29}, month = sep, year = 2022, location = {Dresden, Germany}, }
Abstract: We present a modular simulation toolchain for urban air mobility (UAM), used to investigate interdisciplinary challenges in research fields like transportation planning, air-traffic research, control systems and telematics. The framework can be enhanced to evaluate the connection between travel times and demand, or the inter-dependence of U-Space regulations and self-separation performance. In an example scenario, UAM demand is based on the share of passengers using existing modes in a transportation model. Missions for urban air routes are computed on a layered grid, and conflicts are resolved in a pre-departure scheduling. The multi-agent simulation framework based on OMNeT++ integrates complex dynamics and guidance, navigation, and control algorithms, as well as different communication protocols like 5G. We evaluate a workflow for the city of Hamburg with several thousand flights, based on transportation-related key-performance-indicators.