Multiple-UAV coordination and communications in tactical edge networks

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 48-55

  Tortonesi, Mauro ^a   Stefanelli, Cesare ^a   Benvegnu, Erika ^b   Ford, Ken ^b   Suri, Niranjan ^b   Linderman, Mark ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN AND MACHINE COGNITION   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX TASK; CRITICAL INFORMATION; DEGREE OF COORDINATION; EDGE NETWORKS; FLEXIBLE PLATFORMS; INFORMATION GATHERING; TACTICAL NETWORK; UNCERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS;

MIDDLEWARE;

COORDINATION REACTIONS;

EID: 84867163332     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2012.6316775     Document Type: Article

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