A survey and analysis of mobility models for airborne networks

J Xie, Y Wan, JH Kim, S Fu… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobility models serve as the foundation for evaluating and designing airborne networks
(ANs). Due to the significant impact of mobility models on the networking performance, the …

Evaluation of a multi-hop airborne ip backbone with heterogeneous radio technologies

BN Cheng, R Charland, P Christensen… - Proceedings of the first …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
In recent years, there has been increasing interest in the DoD to build an on-demand
airborne network for communications relay utilizing high capacity, long-range military radio …

UAV-carried long-distance Wi-Fi communication infrastructure

J Xie, F Ai-Emrani, Y Gu, Y Wan, S Fu - AIAA Infotech@ Aerospace, 2016 - arc.aiaa.org
We develop an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-carried long distance Wi-Fi communication
infrastructure for smart city applications such as emergency response. In this paper, we …

UB-ANC emulator: An emulation framework for multi-agent drone networks

J Modares, N Mastronarde, K Dantu - Proceedings of the tenth ACM …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
The University at Buffalo's Airborne Networking and Communications testbed (UB-ANC) is
an open software/hardware platform that facilitates rapid testing and repeatable comparative …

Simulating Unmanned Aerial Vehicle swarms with the UB-ANC emulator

J Modares, N Mastronarde… - International Journal of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent advances in multi-rotor vehicle control and miniaturization of hardware, sensing, and
battery technologies have enabled cheap, practical design of micro air vehicles for civilian …

Characterizing routing with radio-to-router information in a heterogeneous airborne network

BN Cheng, A Coyle, S McGarry, I Pedan… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The current generation of long-range, high capacity, military radios are stove-piped systems
that work well in a homogeneous environment, but lack interoperability with other radio …

Radio-to-router interface technology and its applicability on the tactical edge

BN Cheng, J Wheeler, L Veytser - IEEE Communications …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tactical wireless and mobile networks are the primary networking infrastructure in the Global
Information Grid (GIG) to provide end-to-end connectivity to the warfighters at the tactical …

An implementation of a flexible topology management system for aerial high capacity directional networks

J Wang, P Deutsch, A Coyle, T Shake… - MILCOM 2015-2015 …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, there has been a large push in the US Department of Defense (DoD) to
augment ground networks with a high capacity airborne backbone network that uses …

Analysis of mobility models for airborne networks

J Xie, Y Wan, JH Kim, S Fu… - MILCOM 2013-2013 …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobility models serve as the foundation for evaluating and designing airborne networks.
Due to the significant impact of mobility models on the network performance, mobility models …

Realistic network simulation in the ub-anc aerial vehicle network emulator

J Modares, N Mastronarde… - 2017 IEEE Conference on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in rotorcraft design, multi-rotor vehicle control, miniaturization of hardware,
sensing, and battery technologies have enabled cheap, practical design of micro air …