Communication technology for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: a qualitative assessment and application to Precision Agriculture

Neji, Najett; Mostfa, Tumader

doi:10.1109/icuas.2019.8797879

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“…The proposed work was designed to secure and scale the UAV network. The findings of a quantitative assessment of crops using UAVs were given by Neji et al [16]. For communication security, algorithms such as Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA), secure hash algorithm (SHA), and others are utilized.…”

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Quantum Cryptography-as-a-Service for Secure UAV Communication: Applications, Challenges, and Case Study

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The sudden demand rises in security made researchers come up with solutions that provide instantaneous safety better than the state of the art solutions. The quest for securing data began in the Spartan era. People are now looking to expand this field of research by attacking the existing paradigms and inventing new algorithms that prove to be better than their vulnerable counterparts. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are very much prevailing due to their sleek design and flexible mobility in many sectors such as agriculture, army, healthcare, monitoring and surveillance, and many more. We discuss the growth and demand of drone technology along with its importance in this article. The paper also throws some light on the ongoing security issues in real-time scenarios and the role of quantum cryptography in securing the information over the traditional solutions. Motivated by this, we present a survey on quantum cryptography's importance, role, and benefits in securing UAV communications underlying beyond 5G networks. A novel quantum cryptography-based layered architectural solution is also proposed to achieve high data security and efficient transmission. This paper also present a case study on the battlefield application on the Internet of military things. The performance of the proposed case study system is evaluated by considering the latency, security, and reliability.INDEX TERMS Unmanned aerial vehicle, quantum computing, quantum cryptography, military, blockchain.

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“…According to the typical wireless communications discussed in [ 40 ], this paper considers three promising wireless communication links, i.e., Wi-Fi, Lora, and Sigfox operating on different frequency range. According to discussions in [ 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 ], we choose the reasonable configurations in Table 2 . The reason of having multiple links is to embrace multiple UAV communication technologies for supporting the central management of UAV communication behaviors.…”

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Modeling and Performance Analysis of Opportunistic Link Selection for UAV Communication

Petrunin

Tsourdos

2021

Sensors

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In anticipation of wide implementation of 5G technologies, the scarcity of spectrum resources for the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) communication remains one of the major challenges in arranging safe drone operations. Dynamic spectrum management among multiple UAVs as a tool that is able to address this issue, requires integrated solutions with considerations of heterogeneous link types and support of the multi-UAV operations. This paper proposes a synthesized resource allocation and opportunistic link selection (RA-OLS) scheme for the air-to-ground (A2G) UAV communication with dynamic link selections. The link opportunities using link hopping sequences (LHSs) are allocated in the GCSs for alleviating the internal collisions within the UAV network, offloading the on-board computations in the spectrum processing function, and avoiding the contention in the air. In this context, exclusive technical solutions are proposed to form the prototype system. A sub-optimal allocation method based on the greedy algorithm is presented for addressing the resource allocation problem. A mathematical model of the RA-OLS throughput with above propositions is formulated for the spectrum dense and scarce environments. An interference factor is introduced to measure the protection effects on the primary users. The proposed throughput model approximates the simulated communication under requirements of small errors in the spectrum dense environment and the spectrum scarce environment, where the sensitivity analysis is implemented. The proposed RA-OLS outperforms the static communication scheme in terms of the utilization rate by over 50% in case when multiple links are available. It also enables the collaborative communication when the spectral resources are in scarcity. The impacts from diverse parameters on the RA-OLS communication performance are analyzed.

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“…For each technology, we assign 0 or 10 for the essential criteria and 1 or 2 or 3 for the desirable criteria. We detailed in a recent work [11] the justification of each attributed score, based on technology specifications, as well as recent research works and information from products in the market.…”

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Technology Assessment for Radio Communication between UAV and Ground: Qualitative Study and Applications

Neji

Mostfa

Sebbane

2019

2019 IEEE 89th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2019-Spring)

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In this paper, we develop an analytic methodology to determine the best technology to carry the communication between an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and a ground control station (GCS). We assume herein that the UAV is performing its mission under nominal conditions. For this, we identify some relevant criteria that cover most use-cases. We propose a multi-criteria analysis to determine the best technology to carry the radiocommunication between the UAV and the GCS. In this work, we distinguish between the Control and Non-Payload Communication Channel (CNPC) and the Payload Channel. By studying two different missions, we emphasize that the technology assessment results depend on the use-case as well as the UAV scenario, and that for a same scenario the results for CNPC are different from the Payload communication. In this work, we are focused on the precise agriculture (PA) use-case, and the public safety (PS) use case. We present the assessment results in both Visual Line of Sight (VLOS), and Beyond Line of Sight (BVLOS) scenarios. The latter is very interesting because the communication UAV-GCS becomes of critical importance. I. INTRODUCTION AND RELATED WORKS Owing to their compact size, their reduced weight and increasing capabilities, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are nowadays used in a wide range of civil applications. Three typical categories of missions are identified [1]: UAV-aided ubiquitous coverage (e.g. in case of infrastructure damage and crowded areas), UAV-aided relaying (e.g. between frontline and command center for emergency responses), and UAV-aided information dissemination and data collection (e.g. for precision agriculture). To accomplish its mission, the UAV exchanges information with a Ground Control Station (GCS), through two communication channels: The control and non-payload communication (CNPC) channel and the payload channel. Both of them characterize the Air-to-Ground (AG) communication.

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Communication technology for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: a qualitative assessment and application to Precision Agriculture

Cited by 7 publications

References 24 publications

Quantum Cryptography-as-a-Service for Secure UAV Communication: Applications, Challenges, and Case Study

Quantum Cryptography-as-a-Service for Secure UAV Communication: Applications, Challenges, and Case Study

Modeling and Performance Analysis of Opportunistic Link Selection for UAV Communication

Technology Assessment for Radio Communication between UAV and Ground: Qualitative Study and Applications

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