Abstract
Nanosatellites and unmanned aerial vehicles are attracting more and more the interest of both industrial and research fields. They are low-cost and easy deployable items, therefore their use is expected to quickly grow in the next few years. This work proposes a survey on the network architectures and the applications for nanosatellite swarms and constellations, as well as for flying ad hoc networks, by characterizing distinctive features and issues yet to be resolved in order to take advantage from both technologies in a joint fashion.
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C2 and data links should be different physical links for safety reasons.
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In this work, the class of an UAV describes the amount of available resources on it, such as energy or computational power: larger classes have more available resources than smaller classes.
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This work has been partially supported by the Tuscany region in the framework of the SCIADRO project (FAR-FAS 2014), and by the SatNEx (Satellite Network of Experts) programme, IV phase.
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Bacco, M., Cassarà, P., Colucci, M., Gotta, A., Marchese, M., Patrone, F. (2018). A Survey on Network Architectures and Applications for Nanosat and UAV Swarms. In: Pillai, P., Sithamparanathan, K., Giambene, G., Vázquez, M., Mitchell, P. (eds) Wireless and Satellite Systems. WiSATS 2017. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 231. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76571-6_8
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