Towards a robust real-time wireless link in a land monitoring application

Author

Bello, Lucia Lo ; Kaczyriski, G.A. ; Nolte, Thomas

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng. & Telecommun., Catania Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

20-22 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

449

Lastpage

452

Abstract

This paper addresses on-going work on providing a model of a robust real-time wireless link intended to be used to connect a mobile platform to a ground station in a land monitoring system. This work is part of a project where the mobile platform is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), equipped with embedded devices which acquire and process sensor data to be sent to the ground station. Firstly, a temporal model of the communications link relying on radio modems is developed. Secondly, measurements have been made in order to determine packet loss probability. These two results are currently used to provide a robust real-time model of the wireless communications link.

Keywords

aircraft communication; modems; radiocommunication; remotely operated vehicles; telecommunication links; embedded devices; ground station; land monitoring application; mobile platform; packet loss probability; radio modems; robust real-time wireless link; sensor data; unmanned aerial vehicle; wireless communication link; Loss measurement; Mobile communication; Modems; Monitoring; Real time systems; Robustness; Satellite ground stations; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2006. ETFA '06. IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Prague

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9758-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.2006.355237

Filename

4178352