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Communication Architecture for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System

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Ad-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks (ADHOC-NOW 2018)

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During this last decade, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are receiving more attention and are being useful in harvesting area and for many applications and for different critical scenarios. In this paper, we focalize our investigation on the military domain for land inspection. In this context, this paper describes state of the art related to technologies and communication systems that handle cooperation and traffic exchange between Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Ground Control Station (UGS). Accordingly, we propose a holistic architecture that involves Multi-UAVs, wireless sensor network, cellular network, terrestrial control node and satellite for recovery to get more reliable solutions. Furthermore, this paper details information flows between UAVs and UGS.

Supported by the Tunisian program “Tunisian Federated Research Project” within the framework of the project Supervision Sensitive de lieux Sensibles multi-capteurs: Super-Sens.

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This work is supported by the Tunisian program “Tunisian Federated Research Project” within the framework of the project Supervision Sensitive de lieux Sensibles multi-capteurs: Super-Sens.

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    Lobna Krichen, Mohamed Fourati & Lamia Chaari Fourati

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Krichen, L., Fourati, M., Fourati, L.C. (2018). Communication Architecture for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System. In: Montavont, N., Papadopoulos, G. (eds) Ad-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks. ADHOC-NOW 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11104. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00247-3_20

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