Cooperative relaying for ad-hoc ground networks using swarm UAVs

Proceedings - IEEE Military Communications Conference MILCOM

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Palat, Ramesh Chembil ^a   Annamalai, A ^a   Reed, Jeffrey H ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; SENSOR DATA FUSION; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; TRANSCEIVERS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

AD HOC NETWORK; COMMUNICATION RELAYS; DISTRIBUTED TRANSMIT BEAMFORMING; SENSOR DATA COLLECTION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33847342422     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MILCOM.2005.1605902     Document Type: Conference Paper

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