TY - JOUR
T1 - Survey on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Networks for Civil Applications: A Communications Viewpoint
AU - Hayat, Samira
AU - Yanmaz, Evşen
AU - Muzaffar, Raheeb
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - The days where swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will occupy our skies are fast approaching due to the introduction of cost-efficient and reliable small aerial vehicles and the increasing demand for use of such vehicles in a plethora of civil applications. Governments and industry alike have been heavily investing in the development of UAVs. As such it is important to understand the characteristics of networks with UAVs to enable the incorporation of multiple, coordinated aerial vehicles into the air traffic in a reliable and safe manner. To this end, this survey reports the characteristics and requirements of UAV networks for envisioned civil applications over the period 2000-2015 from a communications and networking viewpoint. We survey and quantify quality-of-service requirements, network-relevant mission parameters, data requirements, and the minimum data to be transmitted over the network. Furthermore, we elaborate on general networking related requirements such as connectivity, adaptability, safety, privacy, security, and scalability. We also report experimental results from many projects and investigate the suitability of existing communication technologies for supporting reliable aerial networking.
AB - The days where swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will occupy our skies are fast approaching due to the introduction of cost-efficient and reliable small aerial vehicles and the increasing demand for use of such vehicles in a plethora of civil applications. Governments and industry alike have been heavily investing in the development of UAVs. As such it is important to understand the characteristics of networks with UAVs to enable the incorporation of multiple, coordinated aerial vehicles into the air traffic in a reliable and safe manner. To this end, this survey reports the characteristics and requirements of UAV networks for envisioned civil applications over the period 2000-2015 from a communications and networking viewpoint. We survey and quantify quality-of-service requirements, network-relevant mission parameters, data requirements, and the minimum data to be transmitted over the network. Furthermore, we elaborate on general networking related requirements such as connectivity, adaptability, safety, privacy, security, and scalability. We also report experimental results from many projects and investigate the suitability of existing communication technologies for supporting reliable aerial networking.
KW - Protocols
KW - Vehicles
KW - Reliability
KW - Quality of service
KW - Wireless sensor networks
KW - Adaptation models
KW - Wireless communication
KW - UAV
UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7463007/
U2 - 10.1109/COMST.2016.2560343
DO - 10.1109/COMST.2016.2560343
M3 - Article
SN - 2373-745X
VL - 18
SP - 2624
EP - 2661
JO - IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
JF - IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
IS - 4
M1 - 7463007
ER -