2019/07/24 by Sabur Baidya, Marco Levorato, Baidya, Sabur +1
Computer Science · Engineering · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #IoT and Edge/Fog Computing #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks #UAV Applications and Optimization
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1907.10689
openalex publication_date 2019/07/24 · openalex created_date 2022/07/23 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Infrastructure assistance has been proposed as a viable solution to improve\nthe capabilities of commercial Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), especially\ntoward fully autonomous operations. The airborne nature of these devices\nimposes constrains limiting the onboard available energy supply and computing\npower. The assistance of the surrounding communication and computing\ninfrastructure can mitigate such limitations by extending the communication\nrange and taking over the execution of compute-intense tasks. However,\nautonomous operations impose specific, and rather extreme in some cases,\ndemands to the infrastructure. Focusing on flight assistance and task\noffloading to edge servers, this paper presents an in-depth evaluation of the\nability of the communication infrastructure to support the necessary flow of\ninformation from the UAV to the infrastructure. The study is based on our\nrecently proposed FlyNetSim, an open-source UAV-network simulator accurately\nmodeling both UAV and network operations.\n