Title
Software Radios for Unmanned Aerial Systems
Abstract
ABSTRACTAs new use cases are emerging for unmanned aerial systems (UASs), advanced wireless communications technologies and systems need to be implemented and widely tested. This requires a flexible platform for development, deployment, testing and demonstration of wireless systems with ground and aerial nodes, enabling effective 3D mobile communications and networking. In this paper, we provide a comparative overview of software-defined radios (SDRs), with a specific focus on SDR hardware and software that can be used for aerial wireless experimentation and research. We discuss SDR hardware requirements, features of available SDR hardware that are suitable for small UASs, and power measurements. We also present SDR software requirements, available open-source SDR software, and calibration/benchmarking of SDR software. As a case study, we present AERPAW, the Aerial Experimentation and Research Platform for Advanced Wireless, and discuss various different experiments that can be supported in that platform using SDRs, for verification/testing of future wireless innovations, protocols, and technologies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3396865.3398692
MOBISYS
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Powell Keith100.34
Sabri Aly200.34
Brennan Daniel300.34
Vuk Marojevic412829.07
Barts R. Michael500.34
Panicker Ashwin600.34
Ozdemir Ozgur700.34
Ismail Güvenç82041153.03