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Adaptive offloading with MPTCP for unmanned aerial vehicle surveillance system

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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are utilized in the surveillance and reconnaissance system of hazardous locations by utilizing the feature that they can freely move away from space constraints. Furthermore, the application scope of the UAVs expanded not only for simple image data collection but also for analysis of complex image data without human intervention. However, mobile UAV systems, such as drone, have limited computing resources and battery power which makes it a challenge to use these systems for long periods of time. In this paper, we propose an AOM, Adaptive Offloading with MPTCP (Multipath TCP), architecture for increasing drone operating time. We design not only the task offloading management module via the MPTCP to utilize heterogeneous network but also the response time prediction module for mission critical task offloading decision. Through the prototype drone implementation, we show the AOM reduces the task response time and increases drone operation time.

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This research was partially supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (NRF-2015R1D1A1A01059049) and by Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) grant funded by the Korean government and Ulsan metropolitan city subsidy project. [17AS1310, 17ZS1710, Development of smart HSE system for shipbuilding and onshore plants].

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    Woo-Sung Jung & Jinhyuk Yim

  2. AJOU University, Suwon, 16499, South Korea

    Young-Bae Ko

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A preliminary version of this paper has been presented at MedHocNet [1] . This research provides an enhancement to the existing work by suggesting new mechanisms and modified analysis results.

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Jung, WS., Yim, J. & Ko, YB. Adaptive offloading with MPTCP for unmanned aerial vehicle surveillance system. Ann. Telecommun. 73, 613–626 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12243-018-0660-5

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