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An aerodynamic, computer vision, and network simulator for networked drone applications

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Sheng-Ming Tang,

Cheng-Hsin Hsu,

Zhigang Tian,

Xin SuAuthors Info & Claims

MobiCom '21: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking

Pages 831 - 833

https://doi.org/10.1145/3447993.3482862

Published: 25 October 2021 Publication History

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We develop, implement, and demonstrate an open-source simulator, called AirSim^N, for evaluating drone-based wireless networks in this extended abstract. AirSim^N is different from all prior attempts in the literature because it concurrently supports aerodynamic, computer vision, and network simulations. We carefully design it to minimize the effort of realizing virtually arbitrary drone applications, thanks to the active and popular AirSim and NS-3 projects. Many mobile computing and wireless networking projects on, e.g., drone feedback controllers, drone vision algorithms, and 5G/6G cellular network planning, can leverage AirSim^N for large-scale evaluations.

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