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Performance of UAV Networks Over the Ocean: A Perspective Towards Connected Ocean

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming one of the promising technologies to improve quality of life, also UAVs are acting one of the reliable sources to provide connectivity over remote areas. In this paper, we present a UAV network architecture over the ocean for the idea of connected ocean. The presented model consists of two layers of UAVs for ocean monitoring and communication. The flying ad hoc network (FANET) over the ocean is formed by lower layer UAVs, so that the area under these UAVs remains connected. In this article, the performance over the ocean is verified for the scenario considering ocean entities and lower layer UAVs. A mechanism to improve the data delivery in the UAV network over the ocean is presented. This can be considered for incorporating in the idea of connected ocean. Simulation results show that the presented mechanism performs better over conventional mechanisms.

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This work was supported, in part, by the Scheme for Promotion of Academic & Research Collaboration (SPARC), Government of India, via grant no. 3524, by the COFAC - Cooperativa de Formação e Animação Cultural, C.R.L.(Lusófona University), via the project PortuLight (COFAC/ILIND/COPELABS/2/2023), by the national funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia - as part the project AIEE-UAV(no. 2022.03897.PTDC) and COPELABS (no. UIDB/04111/2020).

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  1. Maharashtra State Skills University, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

    Ashish Patil

  2. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India

    Muthuchidambaranathan P.

  3. COPELABS, Lusófona University, Lisbon, 1749-024, Portugal

    Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody

  4. CIET, Faculty of Engineering, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, 10115, Malabe, Sri Lanka

    Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody

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Patil, A., P., M. & Jayakody, D.N.K. Performance of UAV Networks Over the Ocean: A Perspective Towards Connected Ocean. Wireless Pers Commun 135, 347–366 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-024-11014-5

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