Abstract
In the last decade, video surveillance systems have become more and more popular. Thanks to a decrease in price of video camera devices and the diffusion of cheap small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), video monitoring is today adopted in a wide range of application cases, from road traffic control to precision agriculture. This leads to capture a great amount of visual material to be monitored and screened for event detection. However, information that is gathered from a platform of video monitoring UAVs may produce high-volume data, whose processing is unfeasible to be done locally by the same UAVs that perform monitoring. Moreover, because of the limited bandwidth of wireless links connecting UAVs to computing infrastructures that are installed on ground, offloading these data to edge clouds renders these platforms infeasible for video analysis applications with low-latency requirements. The target of this paper is to extend a 5G network slice for video monitoring with a Flying Ad-hoc NETwork (FANET) constituted by UAVs with multi-access edge computing (MEC) facilities (MEC UAVs), flying very close to the layer of UAVs monitoring the area of interest. A policy for mutual help among MEC UAVS is defined in order to increase the performance of the whole aerial MEC platform, so further reducing end-to-end latency between sources and actuators, and increasing system reliability. A use case is considered for a numerical analysis of the proposed platform.
Highlights
Nowadays, video surveillance systems are widely used in a very huge number of scenarios, from controlling urban and rural areas and preventing acts of crime, to performing rescue operations, traffic surveillance, and forest fire monitoring [1,2,3,4,5]
Thanks to a decrease in price of video camera devices and the diffusion of cheap small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), video monitoring is today adopted in a wide range of application cases, from road traffic control to precision agriculture
The target of this paper is to extend a 5G network slice for video monitoring with a Flying Ad-hoc NETwork (FANET) constituted by UAVs with multi-access edge computing (MEC) facilities (MEC UAVs), flying very close to the layer of UAVs monitoring the area of interest
Summary
Video surveillance systems are widely used in a very huge number of scenarios, from controlling urban and rural areas and preventing acts of crime, to performing rescue operations, traffic surveillance, and forest fire monitoring [1,2,3,4,5]. As information gathered from a surveillance UAV may include high-volume sensor data, such as live video, and since the processing of these data is computationally expensive to be performed locally by the same small-scaled UAVs, in these cases, they should be continuously offloaded to an external data center. For this purpose, highly uninterrupted communications bandwidth should be required.
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