Title :
Connectivity versus area coverage in unmanned aerial vehicle networks
Author_Institution :
Mobile Systems Group, Institute of Networked and Embedded Systems, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
fDate :
6/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We investigate the area coverage and connectivity of an autonomous, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network, whose goal is to monitor and sense a given area of interest in an efficient manner. To this end, we propose a connectivity-based mobility model that aims to sustain connectivity between the UAVs and the ground station. We compare coverage and connectivity performance of the proposed scheme with a coverage-based mobility scheme in several scenarios. Results illustrate the trade-off between achieving good spatial coverage and staying connected.
Keywords :
"Robot sensing systems","Mobile communication","Spread spectrum communication","Vectors","Mobile computing"
Conference_Titel :
Communications (ICC), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2052-9
Electronic_ISBN :
1938-1883
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.2012.6364585