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Laura Finarelli, Falko Dressler, Marco Ajmone Marsan and Gianluca A. Rizzo, "Modeling and Optimization of Vehicular-Enhanced Urban RANs with In-Band Backhaul," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2026. (to appear)

Abstract

Ground and aerial vehicles offer interesting opportunities for the dynamic deployment of small cell base stations (BSs) to complement static BS infrastructure in Beyond-5G and 6G networks. This enables a form of adaptive network densification that holds the potential to decrease infrastructure and operational costs. While previous studies provide insights into the feasibility of vehicular-enhanced RANs, they largely overlook the issue of determining in which conditions such adaptive densification provides a more efficient alternative to fully static (and often overprovisioned) deployments, particularly when accounting for the resource cost of wireless backhauling. The present work addresses this problem by proposing an analytical framework based on stochastic geometry to model vehicular-enhanced RANs that integrate static BSs with moving small cell BSs with in-band integrated access and backhaul. Our framework enables the assessment of the resource gains achievable through optimal provisioning of vehicular-enhanced RANs, via a joint optimization (in terms of capital expenditure and consumed energy) of deployment and resource allocation under QoS constraints, while accounting for road-grid mobility patterns and the complex interactions between access and backhaul links. Numerical assessment shows that our approach provides novel key insights on the conditions under which the dynamic network densification enabled by vehicle-based base stations can significantly reduce both operational and capital RAN costs.

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Laura Finarelli
Falko Dressler
Marco Ajmone Marsan
Gianluca A. Rizzo

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@article{finarelli2026modeling,
    author = {Finarelli, Laura and Dressler, Falko and Ajmone Marsan, Marco and Rizzo, Gianluca A.},
    note = {to appear},
    title = {{Modeling and Optimization of Vehicular-Enhanced Urban RANs with In-Band Backhaul}},
    journal = {IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology},
    issn = {1939-9359},
    publisher = {IEEE},
    year = {2026},
   }
   
   

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