Accelerating Development in UAV Network Digital Twins with a Flexible Simulation Framework
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| author | Hossen, Md Sharif Gurses, Anil Sichitiu, Mihail Guvenc, Ismail |
| author_facet | Hossen, Md Sharif Gurses, Anil Sichitiu, Mihail Guvenc, Ismail |
| contents | Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enhance coverage and provide flexible deployment in 5G and next-generation wireless networks. The performance of such wireless networks can be improved by developing new navigation and wireless adaptation approaches in digital twins (DTs). However, challenges such as complex propagation conditions and hardware complexities in real-world scenarios introduce a realism gap with the DTs. Moreover, while using real-time full-stack protocols in DTs enables subsequent deployment and testing in a real-world environment, development in DTs requires high computational complexity and involves a long development time. In this paper, to accelerate the development cycle, we develop a measurement-calibrated Matlab-based simulation framework to replicate performance in a full-stack UAV wireless network DT. In particular, we use the DT from the NSF AERPAW platform and compare its reports with those generated by our developed simulation framework in wireless networks with similar settings. In both environments, we observe comparable results in terms of RSRP measurement, hence motivating iterative use of the developed simulation environment with the DT. |
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| spellingShingle | Accelerating Development in UAV Network Digital Twins with a Flexible Simulation Framework Hossen, Md Sharif Gurses, Anil Sichitiu, Mihail Guvenc, Ismail Networking and Internet Architecture Systems and Control Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enhance coverage and provide flexible deployment in 5G and next-generation wireless networks. The performance of such wireless networks can be improved by developing new navigation and wireless adaptation approaches in digital twins (DTs). However, challenges such as complex propagation conditions and hardware complexities in real-world scenarios introduce a realism gap with the DTs. Moreover, while using real-time full-stack protocols in DTs enables subsequent deployment and testing in a real-world environment, development in DTs requires high computational complexity and involves a long development time. In this paper, to accelerate the development cycle, we develop a measurement-calibrated Matlab-based simulation framework to replicate performance in a full-stack UAV wireless network DT. In particular, we use the DT from the NSF AERPAW platform and compare its reports with those generated by our developed simulation framework in wireless networks with similar settings. In both environments, we observe comparable results in terms of RSRP measurement, hence motivating iterative use of the developed simulation environment with the DT. |
| title | Accelerating Development in UAV Network Digital Twins with a Flexible Simulation Framework |
| topic | Networking and Internet Architecture Systems and Control |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.07935 |