Design and implementation of an experimental UAV network

Abstract

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) industry has introduced different types of UAVs to the market. The UAV industry is growing very fast due to the use of UAVs in commercial areas as well. Communication between UAVs make them more powerful and plays a vital role in the success of their commercial applications. Furthermore, UAV communication networks provide a more flexible and robust infrastructure for their use in commercial applications. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a testbed UAV network. Since in these commercial applications, all UAVs are owned by the same organization, the communication can be simply achieved by switching through the nodes. We enabled spanning tree algorithm to prevent looping. We undertook different tests to verify the communication paths through the network.