Networking of Internet of UAVs: Challenges and Intelligent Approaches

TL;DR

This paper reviews the challenges in Internet of UAVs networking, categorizes them into QoS, QoE, and situation-aware issues, and discusses intelligent solutions, including integration with high altitude platforms.

Contribution

It classifies I-UAV networking challenges into three categories and explores intelligent approaches, including the integration with high altitude platforms, to enhance network scalability and performance.

Findings

Identifies key challenges in QoS, QoE, and situation-aware networking for I-UAVs.

Analyzes the impact of these challenges on mission safety and efficiency.

Provides an overview of intelligent solutions and integration strategies with HAPs.

Abstract

Internet of unmanned aerial vehicle (I-UAV) networks promise to accomplish sensing and transmission tasks quickly, robustly, and cost-efficiently via effective cooperation among UAVs. To achieve the promising benefits, the crucial I-UAV networking issue should be tackled. This article argues that I-UAV networking can be classified into three categories, quality-of-service (QoS) driven networking, quality-of-experience (QoE) driven networking, and situation aware networking. Each category of networking poses emerging challenges which have severe effects on the safe and efficient accomplishment of I-UAV missions. This article elaborately analyzes these challenges and expounds on the corresponding intelligent approaches to tackle the I-UAV networking issue. Besides, considering the uplifting effect of extending the scalability of I-UAV networks through cooperating with high altitude platforms (HAPs), this article gives an overview of the integrated HAP and I-UAV networks and presents the corresponding networking challenges and intelligent approaches.