Drones, deployable LTE networks and sunshine
It was a very nice and quite warm sunny day today in Espoo, Finland. So it was time to go out with some equipment and other stuff. The list was roughly following: a drone with LTE connection for mission control plenty of drone batteries a smartphone running LTE radio measurement software (carried by the drone) a compact LTE network (eNB + embedded EPC) - about 5 kg a small directional X-pol antenna a small telescope mast for the antenna feeder cables, Ethernet cables, power cables USIMs Windows and Linux PCs (drone control, LTE throughput measurements, LTE network management) a portable AC generator (power for PCs, drone battery charger and LTE network) duct tape screwdrivers a van licenses for flying drones and using LTE spectrum And the questions was that how well the LTE uplink performs when a drone is flying up to 150 meters above the ground. And it worked very well. Before any results were available, there were of course many problems. The linux PC...