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Reliable M2M/IoT data delivery from FANETs via satellite
Author(s) -
Bacco Manlio,
Colucci Marco,
Gotta Alberto,
Kourogiorgas Charilaos,
Panagopoulos Athanasios D.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of satellite communications and networking
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.388
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1542-0981
pISSN - 1542-0973
DOI - 10.1002/sat.1274
Subject(s) - computer science , telecommunications link , wireless ad hoc network , computer network , channel (broadcasting) , satellite , random access , internet of things , telecommunications , wireless , embedded system , aerospace engineering , engineering
Summary The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is rising in several application fields. This work deals with the communication challenges in UAV swarms, or flying ad hoc network (FANET), when taking into account non–line‐of‐sight scenarios. The use of satellites is a necessity in such operating conditions; thus, this work provides architectural considerations and performance assessments when several (FANETs) share an uplink random access satellite channel, fed with M2M/IoT traffic generated from on‐board sensors, to be reliably delivered to a remote ground destination.