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View all- Dah-Achinanon UMarjani Bajestani SLajoie PBeltrame G(2023)Search and rescue with sparsely connected swarmsAutonomous Robots10.1007/s10514-022-10080-747:7(849-863)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2023
Throughput-aware Flying Communication Relay Network for Disaster Area Search and Rescue
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This study shows how a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles can cooperate to guarantee network throughput for data dissemination of voices, different resolution images, and videos in research and rescue operations. In this paper, we design a flying communication relay network based on a throughput-aware virtual force mechanism. This mechanism is a virtual force-based UAV position strategy to provide different throughput according to the diverse requirements of data transfer in search and rescue operations. The simulation results indicate that the proposed mechanism shows excellent performance in terms of the number of relay nodes, packet delivery ratio, and end-to-end delay under the challenging network condition.
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ICNCC 2019: 2019 The 8th International Conference on Networks, Communication and Computing
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