Uav Swarm Networks: Models, Protocols, and Systems: Models, Protocols, and Systems

UAV swarm network has been used in many critical applications, such as disaster recovery, area surveillance, weather monitoring, and military communications. There are many challenging R&D issues in UAV network designs, such as the hardware/software integration for a large-scale UAV network management, long-distance data transmissions among UAVs, swarm shape/formation control, and intelligent UAV mobility/position prediction. This book will be the first one to cover the engineering designs (especially network protocol designs) for dynamic, large-scale UAV network. It has the technical models/algorithms and protocol specifications for practical UAV swarm network deployment.

Features:

• Includes chapters written by professors, researchers, engineers, and experts in UAV networking fields
• Details network protocol descriptions for practical engineering designs
• Covers 7-layer protocols (particularly data routing layer)
• Presents novel AI models/algorithms for intelligent UAV swarming/networking control
• Highlights practical hardware/software implementations for advanced UAV networks

This book is suitable to a variety of audiences: (1) industry UAV R&D engineers, administrators, or technicians, who would like to grasp the latest trends in UAV communications; (2) college graduate students or researchers, who may want to pursue some advanced research on large-scale UAV swarming and networking technologies; (3) government agencies that determine the future society development in this exciting field; and (4) other interested readers with a strong desire to understand the challenges of designing a QoS-oriented UAV network.

The book editors are: Dr. Fei Hu, Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA; Dr. Xin-Lin Huang, Professor in Information and Communication Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China; and Dr. DongXiu Ou, Professor in Transportation Information Institute at Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

無人機群網路已被應用於許多關鍵應用領域，例如災害恢復、區域監視、氣象監測和軍事通信。在無人機網路設計中存在許多具有挑戰性的研發問題，例如大規模無人機網路管理的硬體/軟體整合、無人機之間的遠距離數據傳輸、群體形狀/編隊控制以及智能無人機移動/位置預測。本書將是第一本涵蓋動態大規模無人機網路工程設計（尤其是網路協議設計）的書籍。它包含了實際無人機群網路部署所需的技術模型/演算法和協議規範。

特點：
- 包含由無人機網路領域的教授、研究人員、工程師和專家撰寫的章節
- 詳細介紹了實際工程設計的網路協議描述
- 涵蓋了7層協議（尤其是數據路由層）
- 提出了用於智能無人機編隊/網路控制的新型人工智能模型/演算法
- 強調了先進無人機網路的實際硬體/軟體實現

本書適合各種讀者：
1. 業界無人機研發工程師、管理人員或技術人員，希望了解無人機通信的最新趨勢；
2. 大學研究生或研究人員，可能希望在大規模無人機編隊和網路技術方面進行一些高級研究；
3. 決定未來社會發展的政府機構在這一激動人心領域的發展；
4. 其他有強烈意願了解面向服務品質的無人機網路設計挑戰的讀者。

本書的編輯人員是：阿拉巴馬大學電機與計算機工程系的Fei Hu博士（美國阿拉巴馬州塔斯卡盧薩）、同濟大學信息與通信工程系的黃新林博士（中國上海）、同濟大學交通信息研究所的歐東秀博士（中國上海）。

Dr. Fei Hu has already published over 10 technical books with CRC publisher. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. He obtained his Ph.D. degrees at Tongji University (Shanghai, China) in the field of Signal Processing (in 1999), and at Clarkson University (New York, USA) in Electrical and Computer Engineering (in 2002). He has published over 200 journal/conference papers and books. Dr. Hu's research has been supported by U.S. National Science Foundation, Cisco, Sprint, and other sources.

胡飛博士已經與CRC出版社合作出版了超過10本技術書籍。他目前是美國亞拉巴馬州塔斯卡盧薩市亞拉巴馬大學電機與計算機工程系的教授。他在1999年在同濟大學（中國上海）獲得了信號處理領域的博士學位，並在2002年在克拉克森大學（美國紐約州）獲得了電機與計算機工程的博士學位。他已經發表了超過200篇期刊/會議論文和書籍。胡博士的研究得到了美國國家科學基金會、思科、Sprint和其他資助來源的支持。