DESIGNING NTN–TERRESTRIAL 6G EXPERIMENTS FOR AGRICULTURE AND SMART GRIDS

Abstract

This publication offers a detailed framework for field testing that includes advanced NonTerrestrial Network (NTN) and terrestrial 6G systems with precision agriculture and smart grids in rural areas as main applications. The framework investigates optimum edge placement, spectrum allocation and backhaul strategies for the purpose of providing stable connectivity in rural regions that are thinned out. The paper delineates playbooks for operations on day-0, day-1 and day-2 deployments which means that experiments can be performed and evaluated for efficiency very quickly. Thanks to edge-cloud coordination, the framework can provide real-time monitoring, low-latency data processing, and adaptive network management. The method is validated by a scenario from North Dakota dealing with agriculture and rural power grid and is shown that NTN-terrestrial integration can improve throughput, coverage, and energy efficiency for future smart infrastructure deployments