Performance Evaluation of Multi-UAV Network Applied to Scanning Rocket Impact Area

Autor: Joao B. D. Dantas, Elitelma da Silva Souza, Francisco H. Cunha Junior, Mauricio R. Silva, Glauberto Leilson Alves de Albuquerque, Diego S. Pereira, Luis B. P. Nascimento, Adelardo Adelino Dantas de Medeiros, Deyvid L. Leite, Marcelo B. Nogueira, Pablo Javier Alsina, Mateus Rodrigues de Morais
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Computer science
Wireless ad hoc network
Reliability (computer networking)
Real-time computing
Throughput
02 engineering and technology
lcsh:Chemical technology
Biochemistry
Article
Analytical Chemistry
Packet loss
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering
network performance
Multi-UAV system monitoring
lcsh:TP1-1185
Network performance
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
wireless sensor networks
Instrumentation
FANET
business.industry
Node (networking)
multi-UAV system monitoring
020206 networking & telecommunications
ad hoc network
Communication architecture
Telecommunications network
Wireless sensor networks
Atomic and Molecular Physics
and Optics
Network management
Ad hoc network
communication architecture
020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
business
Wireless sensor network
Zdroj: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Sensors
Volume 19
Issue 22
Sensors, Vol 19, Iss 22, p 4895 (2019)
Repositório Institucional da UFRN
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)
instacron:UFRN
ISSN: 1424-8220
Popis: This paper presents a communication network for a squadron of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to be used in the scanning rocket impact area for Barreira do Inferno Launch Center&mdash
CLBI (Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil), aiming at detecting intruder boats. The main features of communication networks associated with multi-UAV systems are presented. This system sends information through Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). After comparing and analyzing area scanning strategies, it presents the specification of a data communication network architecture for a squadron of UAVs within a sensor network using XBee Pro 900HP S3B modules. A brief description is made about the initial information from the construction of the system. The embedded hardware and the design procedure of a dedicated communication antenna to the XBee modules are presented. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed architecture in terms of robustness and reliability, a set of experimental tests in different communication scenarios is carried out. Network management software is employed to measure the throughput, packet loss and other performance indicators in the communication links between the different network nodes. Experimental results allow verifying the quality and performance of the network nodes, as well as the reliability of the communication links, assessing signal received quality, range and latency.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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