@inproceedings{a871f4c89d704bf9b2abf2dbf67ee023,
title = "Multi-Hop User Equipment (UE) to UE Relays for MANET/Mesh Leveraging 5G NR Sidelink",
abstract = "This paper provides use cases to adapt 5G sidelink technology to enable multi-hop User Equipment (UE)-to-UE (U2U) and UE-to-Network relaying in 3GPP standards. Such a capability could enable groups of users to communicate with each other when operating at the periphery or outside a network's coverage area, with commercial and public safety benefits. This paper compares routing protocols to enable sidelink with U2U relay to support a Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET). A gap analysis of current 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 18 (R-18) specifications is performed to determine the missing procedures to enable multi-hop U2U relaying, along with a proposed candidate protocol to fill the gap. The candidate protocol can be submitted as a contribution to 3GPP TSG Service and System Aspects (SA) Working Group 2 (WG2) as proposed changes to the 5G architecture in 3GPP Release 19 (R-19).",
keywords = "5G, MANET, Mesh, Multi-hop, ProSe, Relay, Routing, Sidelink",
author = "Shyy, \{D. J.\} and Cuong Luu and David Gabay and Xu, \{John D.\} and David Bate and Lingjia Liu and Tugba Erpek",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 ACM.; 8th Annual IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing, SEC 2023 ; Conference date: 06-12-2023 Through 09-12-2023",
year = "2023",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1145/3583740.3626813",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings - 2023 IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing, SEC 2023",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers",
pages = "341--346",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2023 IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing, SEC 2023",
address = "United States",
}