Scalable Mobility for UAV Swarms

Ahmed Bader, Ph.D.Ahmed@Insyab-Wireless.com

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Outline

• Virtues of UAV swarms

• Why not over-the-counter wireless?

• Insyab’s technology overview

• Performance benchmarks

• About Insyab

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A Plethora of Use Cases

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• Emergency and first response

• Disaster relief operations

• Paramedics & Public safety

• Law enforcement

• Tactical operations

• Critical infrastructure surveillance

• Industrial asset monitoring

• Mining and O&G

• Venue and event management

• Crowd management

• TV broadcast

• Film making & production

• Telemedicine and paramedicsComing up very soon …

UAV swarms for cellular offload. Live trials in the USA underway.

Higher sensing

resolution

Virtues of UAV swarms

Coordinated motion

trajectories

Distributed sensing &

computing

Extended coverage

Dramatic reduction in

time-to-complete a

mission

Substantial boost in

mission success rates

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Challenges Ahead of UAV Swarms>> connectivity perspective >>

• Ultra-low latency required to unleash the power of distributed sensing, processing, and trajectory planning.

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• Underlying wireless connectivity must be indifferent to high mobility and dynamic network topology changes.

• The wireless connectivity layer must cater for a large number of nodes. This is desired to extend coverage span and shorten time to complete a mission.

• The power budget of mechanical parts and onboard computational elements is going down. Wireless comm. should not be the bottleneck for energy consumption.

Latency

Mobility

Scalability

Energy

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• Real-time live feeds from all nodes to the ground station with zero-perceived latency (ZPL). Necessary to allow proper command and control of the operation.

Real-time

Shortcomings of LTE

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A study conducted by Insyabfor a major regional telecom operator demonstrated clearly an LTE uplink capacity deficit during emergencies.

This makes it risky to rely on LTE infrastructure for UAV swarms particularly in mission-critical applications.

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Shortcomings of Wi-Fi

• Prone to interference from other systems– 2.4 GHz is already crowded– 5 GHz soon to be contaminated with the arrival

of LTE-Unlicensed

• Does not scale well– Many repeaters and infrastructure access points

required to cover large areas– Wi-Fi mesh supports only few hops

• Does not support mobility very well– The underlying physical layer (PHY) was not built

with mobility in mind– Mobility-throughput tradeoff tends to be quite

painful

• Wi-Fi modems are relatively power hungry• Limited to ISM bands while many clients

mandate support for other security and military bands

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The introduction of LTE-U (aka LAA) is expected to increase the “interference temperature” seen by Wi-Fi systems, causing heated debated between 3GPP and IEEE 802.11 communities.

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Insyab has developed a novel mobile ad hoc networking (MANET) technology catered for real-time video streaming …

Technology Overview

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• Patent-pending technology • Based on “autonomous

cooperative geographical routing”• Empowered by localized

distributed routing decisions• Incorporates a novel OFDMA-

based PHY preamble structure• Many-to-many comm. paradigm

Performance Advantages• Highly resilient to interference

• Supports extreme mobility

• Up to 3X higher network throughput

• Highly scalable (100+ nodes)

• Ultra-low end-to-end latency (<5 ms)

• RF parameters configurable over-the-air

• Low-complexity FPGA-based design (50KLE)

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Severe interference

Moderate interference

Low interference

Performance Benchmarks

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Differentiated performance. Validated in the field.

Insyab designs and builds customized wireless solutions for industrial, mission-

critical, and cyber-physical systems.

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About Us

Software IP

Evaluation board• Software defined radio (SDR) empowered

by Insyab’s Wireless Design Platform• Full-duplex support • Up to 23 Mbps host-to-host • Wide spectrum band (0.3 – 3.8 GHz)

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Hardware reference design• SmartFusion 2.0 SoC FPGA • Maxim 5 GHz front-end with up to 40

MHz channelization• Full-duplex support • Up to 500-meter range at a maximum

throughput of 60 Mbps• Low complexity design (<50 KLE)• 7X more energy-efficient compared to

standards-based gear.• Integrated support for a 10-element

circular antenna array. • (expected 1Q2017)

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Code space dedicated for user-

defined applications

autonomous geo-routing protocol

Firmware & API’s

Hardware platform

What We Offer

Management Team

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Slim is a world-renowned scholar in wireless communications with nearly 1,000 publications in this field. Slim also currently holds a professor position at King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST). He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. both in Electrical Engineering from Caltech and Georgia Tech respectively.

Slim Alouini – Co-Founder

Slim is a veteran in the wireless industry. Having spent nearly 20 years in Silicon Valley, Slim offers indispensable advice to Insyab's development. Most recently, he was the COO of Novatel Wireless. Slim holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech.

Slim Souissi - Advisor

Zaid Masri - AdvisorZaid advises Insyab on business development and commercial matters. He comes from an investment and banking background but is also an entrepreneur himself. He earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from The American University of Beirut (AUB) and Master degree in Finance from the University of Oxford.

Ahmed Bader - Managing Director

Ahmed co-founded Insyab Wireless with Slim Alouini in 2015 with the prime purpose of filling obvious gaps in the wireless market. Ahmed brings along more than 14 years of experience in the wireless industry. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Télécom ParisTech, and M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University.

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