5G Testbed Implementation and Measurement Campaign for Ground and Aerial Coverage

5G networks promise high data rates, low latency and extreme reliability. Existing literature is saturated with simulation and numerical investigations on 5G. However, a limited number of studies are available on the evaluation of 5G networks in real-time heterogeneous environments. As 5G networks are being deployed worldwide. Therefore, it is significant to analyse the performance of 5G network in real life, which can be helpful for planning future deployments. This study provides the implementation of a portable 5G testbed and presents the experimental results of ground and aerial measurement campaign in order to evaluate the performance of 5G network operating at 3.5 GHz in terms of coverage, throughput and latency.