Ad hoc network QoS architecture for cooperative Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

New trends in cooperative human-machine system use in the domain of transportations are rising. These systems rely on a powerful interaction, or collaboration between humans and machines. This collaboration is made possible by an exchange of information between actors (humans or machines, commonly referred to as agents) in the transport of good or people. Cooperation in such a dynamic environment implies that the actors may have varying roles and/or tasks assigned to them, thus leading to changes in their communication needs. This paper presents an ad hoc network QoS architecture oriented toward cooperation between agents, called DAN. This architecture is aware of agents needs in term of communication and is able to provide, or inform of the impossibility to provide, a quality of service in accordance to those needs.