Study on on Additional capabilities of mobile networks for drone operations and managements
The present document provides additional use cases of UAV and identifies potential requirements to improve 5G system’s support of UAV applications, UAV operations and management, including:
• Provide additional information to the UAV operator/USS to execute pre-flight preparations and inflight operation (e.g, flight mission application, flight path recommendation, flight monitoring and control);
• Use 5G system to support enhancing the UAV flight/route management based on network capacity and QoS information along the planned route;
• Use 5G system to further enhance the safety and security of UAV operations, e.g. supporting UTM in UAV detection and DAA (Detect and Avoid);
• Identify potential new security, charging and regulatory requirements on 5GS, when used for UAS operation;
• Identify potential new requirements related to redundancy and reliability of command and control (C2) traffic for UAV.
For the identified use cases, a gap analysis is performed between potential new service requirements and existing 3GPP requirements and functionalities.
NOTE: This study investigates requirements for additional 5GS capabilities to assist UTM, with the assumption that liability and responsibility for UAV operation remain under the domain of the UTM/UAV operator.
NOTE: Potential overlaps with ongoing stage-2 work (on UAS), and other SA1 studies (e.g. FS_Sensing) have been considered and avoided.