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    TSCH meets BLE: routed mesh communication over BLE
    (IEEE, 2023-06)
    Harms, Laura
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    Landsiedel, Olaf
    Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is the prevalent communication protocol for the Internet of Things. However, for time-critical applications requiring time-synchronized multi-hop networks with often multiple node exchanging data at the same time slot, BLE lacks a solution. Instead, we commonly see IEEE 802.15.4 being used with its Time-Slotted Channel Hopping (TSCH) MAC layer. In this work, we build TBLE, which brings the established TSCH protocol to BLE, enabling BLE to be used for time-synchronized routed mesh communication. We show that in experimental testbed deployments, TBLE achieves similar performance to TSCH, with the possibility for lower average latencies of up to 20%. Moreover, due to the higher spectral efficiency of BLE compared with IEEE 802.15.4 (40 vs. 16 channels), more parallel routed communications are possible with TBLE, further reducing latency and increasing throughput.
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    A fault-tolerant distributed air-to-ground communication architecture for urban air mobility
    (IEEE, 2023-07)
    Wanniarachchi, Shashini Thamarasie
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    Turau, Volker
    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.
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