Concept of Flying Ad-hoc Network : A Survey 1

As a large amount of research for mobile ad-hoc networks has been conducted in recent years, new emerging research challenge, aircraft ad-hoc networks, has attracted considerable attention from the research community. These networks aim to construct self-organizing networks with flying aircrafts in the sky instead of typical aircraft-groundaircraft communications. In recent years, the capabilities and roles of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have rapidly evolved, and their usage in military and civilian areas is extremely popular as a result of the advances in technology of robotic systems such as processors, sensors, communications, and networking technologies. One of the most important design problems for multi-UAV systems is the communication which is crucial for cooperation and collaboration between the UAVs. Flying Adhoc Networks (FANET) can solve this problem easily. In this paper, FANET is surveyed; the main design issues and challenges are introduced. Open research challenges are also discussed.

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