UAV swarm network has been used in many critical applications such as disaster recovery, area surveillance, weather monitoring, military communications, etc. There are many challenging R&D issues in UAV network designs, such as the hardware/software integration for a large-scale UAV network management, long-distance data transmissions across UAVs, swarm shape/formation control, intelligent UAV mobility/position prediction, and so on. This book will be the first one to cover the engineering designs (especially network protocol designs) for dynamic, large-scale UAV network. It has the technical models/algorithms and protocol specifications for practical UAV swarm network deployment. * Chapters written by professors, researchers, engineers, and experts in UAV networking fields; * Detailed network protocol descriptions for practical engineering designs; * Covers 7-layer protocols (particularly data routing layer); * Novel AI models/algorithms for intelligent UAV swarming/networking control; * Practical hardware/software implementations for advanced UAV networks. This book is suitable to a variety of audiences: (1) Industry UAV R&D engineers, administrators, or technicians, who would like to grasp the latest trends in UAV communications; (2) College graduate students or researchers, who may want to pursue some advanced research on large-scale UAV swarming and networking technologies; (3) government agencies which determine the future society development in this exciting field; and (4) other interested readers with strong desire to understand the challenges of designing an QoS-oriented UAV network. Book editors: (1) Prof. Fei Hu, Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Alabama, USA; (2) Prof. Sunil Kumar, Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at San Diego State University, USA; (3) Dr. Scott Pudlewski, Program Director and Senior Scientist of Air Force Research Lab, USA. (4) Dr. Elizabeth Bentley, Program Director and Senior Scientist of Air Force Research Lab, USA.

Book Information
ISBN 9780367457396
Author Fei Hu
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint CRC Press
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 156g