Airborne Communication Networks for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 96, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2008-2027

  Frew, Eric W ^a   Brown, Timothy X ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne communication networks; controlled mobility; mobile ad hoc networking; unmanned aircraft systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008564335     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2008.2006127     Document Type: Article

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