UAV deployment algorithm for manned and unmanned cooperative airborne network

Abstract

The flexible and easy-to-deploy Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV) is used to control the manned-aircraft formations with highly dynamic topology changes, forming a manned and unmanned cooperative airborne network, which can effectively reduce network deployment costs while ensuring network connectivity. Aiming at the problem of UAV deployment, in order to optimize network reliability and deployment cost overhead indicators, a UAV deployment algorithm based on connectivity and cost minimization is proposed. Firstly, in order to achieve full coverage of the mission area to ensure connectivity, preliminary deployment is performed based on the communication range of the UAV. Then, based on deployment constraints and optimization indicators, the redundant UAVs in the preliminary deployment are determined and deleted. The experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.