{"title":"Benchmarking of Routing Algorithms in 3D MANETs","authors":"Armir Bujari, Luca Busato, C. Palazzi, D. Ronzani","doi":"10.1145/3213526.3213538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3213526.3213538","url":null,"abstract":"Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), or commonly referred to as Drones, have captured our imagination bringing new and challenging service provisioning schemes into the networking scenario. We might indeed be reaching the day where communication-enabled drones might be employed in synergy with deployed public networks offering alternate service access means. In this context, we contribute with quantitative analysis of classic routing algorithms in a 3D mobile environment, shedding some light on their performance tradeoffs.","PeriodicalId":237910,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128447615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pragyan Mohapatra, A. Ramaswamy, J. Gubbi, Achanna Anil Kumar, P. Misra
{"title":"Aerial Drones with Direction Sensitive DeepEars","authors":"Pragyan Mohapatra, A. Ramaswamy, J. Gubbi, Achanna Anil Kumar, P. Misra","doi":"10.1145/3213526.3213530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3213526.3213530","url":null,"abstract":"Recent years have seen a huge increase in the use of small unmanned aircrafts, otherwise known as micro aerial vehicles (MAVs), in a variety of monitoring applications. With regard to applications in emergency response, acoustic sensing plays a key role in locating sound emitting targets (e.g., a person in distress); especially in visually occluded environment. Our endeavour, therefore, is to provision the MAV Ears; and as part of the initial prerequisite, our aim is to develop a robust acoustic direction finding system. In order to achieve autonomous MAV navigation using acoustic signal, a direction-of-arrival (DoA) mechanism that is robust in low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) conditions becomes a necessity. In this paper, we propose Drone-DeepEars: a new DoA estimation framework based on deep learning and optimized for sensor arrays with fewer sensing elements. We show that its DoA estimation accuracy is comparatively better than state-of-the-art techniques (such as MUSIC and ESPIRIT) at high noise levels, but at a relatively lower computational footprint.","PeriodicalId":237910,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133282025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Borja Nogales, Victor Sanchez-Agüero, I. Vidal, F. Valera, Jaime García-Reinoso
{"title":"A NFV system to support configurable and automated multi-UAV service deployments","authors":"Borja Nogales, Victor Sanchez-Agüero, I. Vidal, F. Valera, Jaime García-Reinoso","doi":"10.1145/3213526.3213534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3213526.3213534","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we explore the strong potential of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technologies to enable multi-mission small unmanned aircraft systems. In this context, we analyze the main challenges of using NFV technologies in this emergent field, and we present the design of an NFV system that supports the flexible, automated and cost-effective deployment of network services over small unmanned aerial vehicles. To validate our design, we implemented its most relevant components with open-source technologies, using this first prototype of the system to carry out a set of preliminary experiments that showcase its feasibility and functionality.","PeriodicalId":237910,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124459484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications","authors":"","doi":"10.1145/3213526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3213526","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":237910,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129309162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Drone Noise Reduction through Audio Waveguiding","authors":"Abdirahman Mohamud, A. Ashok","doi":"10.1145/3213526.3213543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3213526.3213543","url":null,"abstract":"Drones have become increasingly popular in today's world and extend to a wide variety of applications. However, one key limitation of drones even today is the audio noise emanating from their propellers. This noise is a characteristic of almost all drones available off--the--shelf and limits the capability of drones to record audio during flight. In this paper, we explore how simple techniques can help reduce and/or mitigate the drone propeller noise. Prior works have targeted addressing drone noise using sophisticated propeller designs and digital noise cancellation techniques. We aim at simple yet effective approaches that can be applied to any kind of drone without complex customization. One approach we broadly investigate in this paper is how to sound--proof the drone so as to absorb, cancel and/or redirect the audio noise away from the location of the microphone associated with the drone.","PeriodicalId":237910,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126301134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ASTRO: Autonomous, Sensing, and Tetherless netwoRked drOnes","authors":"Riccardo Petrolo, Yingyan Lin, E. Knightly","doi":"10.1145/3213526.3213527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3213526.3213527","url":null,"abstract":"We propose ASTRO, a drone network that realizes three key features: (i) networked drones that coordinate in autonomous flight via software defined radios, (ii) off-grid tetherless flight without requiring a ground control station or air-to-ground network, and (iii) on-board machine learning missions based on on-drone sensor data shared among drones. We implement ASTRO and present a suite of proof-of-concept experiments based on a mission in which a network of ASTRO drones must find and track a mobile spectrum cheater.","PeriodicalId":237910,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications","volume":"92 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123168941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Topology Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Mesh Networks: A Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm Approach","authors":"S. Sabino, A. Grilo","doi":"10.1145/3213526.3213535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3213526.3213535","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we consider the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as flying access points forming of mesh network, providing connectivity to ground nodes deployed in a target area. The geographical placement of UAVs is optimized based on a Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm (MOEA). The goal of the proposed scheme is to cover all ground nodes using a minimum number of UAVs, while maximizing the fulfillment of their data rate requirements. The UAVs can employ different data rates depending on the channel conditions, which are expressed by the Signal-to-Noise-Ratio (SNR). In this work, elitist Non-Dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II) is used to find a set of optimal positions to place UAVs, given the positions of the ground nodes. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can optimize the UAV placement given the requirement and the positions of the ground nodes in the geographical area.","PeriodicalId":237910,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114017681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}