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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are attracting an increasing interest from both the industrial and the research fields, because of the large number of scenarios and applications that they can support. One of the big challenges of the next future is the use of UAV swarms, in order to exploit the advantages that coordinated actions of multiple drones can provide. In this work, we propose an analytical framework to evaluate the probability of a reliable command and control message delivery from a Ground Control Station to a UAV swarm via satellite, also exploiting intra-swarm gossiping.
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DeSIRE stands for Demonstration of Satellites enabling the Insertion of RPAS in Europe, a joint ESA-EDA initiative.
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Because of gossiping, each block can be received more than once.
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This work has been supported by the Tuscany region in the frameworks of SCIADRO and MOSCARDO projects (FAR-FAS 2014–2016).
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Cassarà, P., Colucci, M., Gotta, A. (2018). Command and Control of UAV Swarms via Satellite. In: Pillai, P., Sithamparanathan, K., Giambene, G., Vázquez, M., Mitchell, P. (eds) Wireless and Satellite Systems. WiSATS 2017. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 231. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76571-6_9
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