A discrete stochastic process for coverage analysis of autonomous UAV networks

2010 IEEE Globecom Workshops, GC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1777-1782

  Yanmaz, Evşen ^a   Costanzo, Carmelo ^a,b   Bettstetter, Christian ^a,c   Elmenreich, Wilfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^c Lakeside Labs GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Coverage; Mobility; UAV networks; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CHAINS; MARKOV PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AERIAL VEHICLE; ANALYTICAL METHOD; AUTONOMOUS UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES; COVERAGE; COVERAGE ANALYSIS; MOBILITY; PERFORMANCE; SENSOR COVERAGE; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE NETWORK; VEHICLE NETWORK;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 79951934945     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOMW.2010.5700247     Document Type: Conference Paper

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