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Laura Finarelli, Falko Dressler, Marco Ajmone Marsan and Gianluca A. Rizzo, "Assessing the Benefits of Ground Vehicles as Moving Urban Base Stations," Proceedings of 23rd Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference (MedComNet 2025), Cagliari, Italy, June 2025. (to appear)

Abstract

In the evolution towards 6G user-centric networking, the moving network (MN) paradigm can play an important role. In a MN, some small cell base stations (BS) are installed on top of vehicles, and enable a more dynamic, flexible and sustainable, network operation. By "following" the users movements and adapting dynamically to their requests, the MN paradigm enables a more efficient utilization of network resources, mitigating the need for dense small cell BS deployments at the cost of an increase in resource utilization due to wireless backhauling. This aspect is at least partly compensated by the shorter distance between users and BS, which allows for lower power and Line-of-Sight communications. While the MN paradigm has been investigated for some time, to date, it is still unclear in which conditions the advantages of MN outweigh the additional resource costs. In this paper, we propose a stochastic geometry framework for the characterization of the potential benefits of the MN paradigm as part of an HetNet in urban settings. Our approach allows the estimation of user-perceived performance, accounting for wireless backhaul connectivity as well as base station resource scheduling. We formulate an optimization problem for determining the resource-optimal network configurations and BS scheduling which minimize the overall amount of deployed BSs in a QoS-aware manner, and the minimum vehicular flow between different urban districts required to support them, and we propose an efficient stochastic heuristic to solve it. Our numerical assessment suggests that the MN paradigm, coupled with appropriate dynamic network management strategies, significantly reduces the amount of deployed network infrastructure while guaranteeing the target QoS perceived by users.

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Laura Finarelli
Falko Dressler
Marco Ajmone Marsan
Gianluca A. Rizzo

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@inproceedings{finarelli2025assessing,
    author = {Finarelli, Laura and Dressler, Falko and Ajmone Marsan, Marco and Rizzo, Gianluca A.},
    note = {to appear},
    title = {{Assessing the Benefits of Ground Vehicles as Moving Urban Base Stations}},
    publisher = {IEEE},
    address = {Cagliari, Italy},
    booktitle = {23rd Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference (MedComNet 2025)},
    month = {6},
    year = {2025},
   }
   
   

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