Experiments using small unmanned aircraft to augment a mobile ad hoc network

Emerging Technologies in Wireless LANs: Theory, Design, and Deployment

Volumn 9780521895842, Issue , 2007, Pages 695-718

  Brown, Timothy ^a   Argrow, Brian ^a   Frew, Eric ^a   Dixon, Cory ^a   Henkel, Daniel ^a   Elston, Jack ^a   Gates, Harvey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AD HOC NETWORKS; AIRCRAFT COMMUNICATION; GROUND VEHICLES; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; STANDARDS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEHICULAR AD HOC NETWORKS; WI-FI; WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS;

BATTLEFIELD COMMUNICATIONS; COMMUNICATION ARCHITECTURES; DYNAMIC SOURCE ROUTING PROTOCOL; MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKING; NETWORK MONITORING ARCHITECTURES; SMALL UNMANNED AIRCRAFTS; UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM; WIRELESS MOBILE AD-HOC NETWORKS;

MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS;

EID: 84927010184     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511611421.036     Document Type: Chapter

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