A novel communications protocol using geographic routing for swarming UAVs performing a search mission

7th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Lidowski, Robert L ^a   Mullins, Barry E ^a   Baldwin, Rusty O ^a  

^a Air Force Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Communications; Geographic routing; Unmanned aerial vehicles

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS SWARMS; COMMUNICATIONS PROTOCOLS; DIMENSIONAL GRIDS; DIRECTION CHANGE; GEOGRAPHIC ROUTING; OPNET MODELER; SEARCH EFFICIENCY; SEARCH PROTOCOLS; STATELESS ROUTING;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SCIENCE; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

ROUTING PROTOCOLS;

EID: 70349329598     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PERCOM.2009.4912764     Document Type: Conference Paper

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