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There will be more and more connected devices in the future smart cities. To deal with the spatio-temporal fluctuations of the traffic demand to/from these mobile devices, a moving mobile network has been investigated. Among them, a tethered flying drone is becoming a promising option for next generation mobile communications. However, to the best of our knowledge, tethered ground/floating nodes have not been employed for moving cells. Therefore, in this paper we propose a concept of tethered autonomous moving cells for smart cities. The goal of the tethered moving cells is to provide stable and high data rate communication via optical fiber cables for unstable demands. The tethered cables also provide long battery lifetime. We also propose the slackness control algorithm to optimally handle the optical cable. The feasibility of the proposed idea is demonstrated with the experimental results using a ground robot and a floating node.
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A part of this work was supported by JST, Presto Grant Number JPMJPR2137, and KDDI Foundation, Japan.
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Ota, K., Watanabe, H., Nakayama, Y. (2023). A Feasibility Study of Tethered Autonomous Moving Cells for Smart City. In: Shinkuma, R., Xhafa, F., Nishio, T. (eds) Advances in Engineering and Information Science Toward Smart City and Beyond. Engineering Cyber-Physical Systems and Critical Infrastructures, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29301-6_8
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