Deployable aerial communication networks: Challenges for futuristic applications

PE-WASUN'12 - Proceedings of the 9th ACM Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 9-16

  Reynaud, Laurent ^a   Rasheed, Tinku ^b  

^a ORANGE LABS   (France)

^b CREATE NET   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aerial Networks; High Altitude Platforms; Low Altitude Platforms; Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Indexed keywords

AERIAL NETWORKS; HIGH ALTITUDE PLATFORM; LOW ALTITUDES; RESEARCH EFFORTS; STRATOSPHERIC PLATFORMS; WIRELESS SERVICES;

COMPUTER NETWORK PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SENSORS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS;

EID: 84869753425     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2387027.2387030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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