Airborne Wireless Networks for Smart and Sustainable Future Cities

Driven by an emerging use of flying platforms such as high/low/medium altitude platforms, in wireless applications and the challenges that the 5G and beyond networks exhibit, the focus of this project is to research, design and develop novel and smart scalable and unified artificial intelligence and machine learning enabled wireless infrastructure by integrating flying platforms into 5G access and backhaul networks.

Such large scale flexible and self-organising platforms/frameworks provisioning ultra-low latency (time to reaction over wireless links), high data-rate and high reliability will guarantee the global information and communication requirements in future smart and resilient cities and solve the ubiquitous connectivity problems in: (a) many challenging network coverage environments (such as coverage or capacity enhancements for remote or sparsely populated and disaster affected areas) and (b) several industrial sectors for intelligent monitoring and surveillance applications (such as transportations, health, power grid, and agriculture)

Programme Start Date: 1st October 2023