Abstract
The Internet of Drones (IoD) is an emerging network architecture that leverages bidirectional communications between Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and a ground infrastructures. Given its versatility, the IoD is a key enabler for the evolution of sophisticated verticals, thus including Smart Cities, Industry 4.0 and Smart Transportation, to name a few. As a matter of fact, a swarm of drones can carry out real-time data gathering, industrial plants monitoring and wide area surveying. Since drones are battery-supplied systems, energy efficiency, communication reliability, and flight formation management routines become critical aspects of the IoD design. This work discusses the communication facets in a swarm of drones, leveraging the joint adoption of Bluetooth and Millimeter-Wave technologies. The proposal enables the exchange of heterogeneous data with a ground infrastructure while facilitating coordinated flight of the swarm. The resulting dual mode system optimizes energy resources, while maximizing reliability and effectiveness of drones’ communications.
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This work was partially supported by the Italian MIUR PON projects Pico&Pro (ARS01 01061), AGREED (ARS01 00254), FURTHER (ARS01 01283), and RAFAEL (ARS01 00305), by the PRIN project no. 2017NS9FEY entitled “Realtime Control of 5G Wireless Networks: Taming the Complexity of Future Transmission and Computation Challenges” funded by the Italian MIUR, and by the Apulia Region (Italy) Research projects INTENTO (36A49H6).
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Boccadoro, P., Santorsola, A., Grieco, L.A. (2020). A Dual-Stack Communication System for the Internet of Drones. In: Grieco, L.A., Boggia, G., Piro, G., Jararweh, Y., Campolo, C. (eds) Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks. ADHOC-NOW 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12338. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61746-2_6
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