• 한국위성정보통신학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.43-48
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• 2017

Recently, demands on civilian UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) has been increasing and appropriate communication system is required for the UAV. In this paper, the performance of the UAV communication system using commercial wireless mobile network is discussed. The main service area of the wireless mobile network is ground level however the flying range of the UAV is normally in high altitude. Because of this mismatch of service area the performance of the UAV communication system is degraded in high altitude. To compensate performance degradation of the UAV communications system in high altitude, adaptive array antenna is introduced which is able to overcome altitude limitation of the UAV communication system.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.433-438
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• 2012

In this paper, a operation network system equipped with onboard wireless communication systems and ground-based mission control systems is proposed for swarm flight of small UAVs. This operating system can be divided into two networks, UAV communication network and ground control system. The UAV communication network is intend to exchange the informations of navigation, mission and flight status with minimum time delay. The ground control system consisted of mission control systems and UDP network. Proposed operation network system can make a swarm flight of various UAVs, execute complex missions decentralizing mission to several UAVs and cooperte several missions. Finally, PILS environments are developed based on the total operating system.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.779-800
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• 2024

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks, also known as drone networks, have gained significant attention for their potential in various applications, including communication. UAV networks for communication involve using a fleet of drones to establish wireless connectivity and provide communication services in areas where traditional infrastructure is lacking or disrupted. UAV communication networks need to be highly secured to ensure the technology's security and the users' safety. The proposed survey provides a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art UAV network security solutions. In this paper, we analyze the existing literature on UAV security and identify the various types of attacks and the underlying vulnerabilities they exploit. Detailed mitigation techniques and countermeasures for the protection of UAVs are described in this paper. The survey focuses on the implementation of novel technologies like Q-learning, blockchain, IRS, and mmWave. This paper discusses network simulation tools that range in complexity, features, and programming capabilities. Finally, future research directions and challenges are highlighted.

• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.38-49
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• 2020

In recent years, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted mobile free space optical (FSO) communication technique has attracted considerable attention regarding its aims to provide improved communication conditions for fixed-to-fixed FSO network and promising fronthaul and backhaul solutions for 5G+ wireless networks. This can be attributed to its outstanding advantages such as fast deployment and flexible network configuration. The UAV-assisted mobile FSO system can be used to provide cost-effective internet services in rural and remote areas and in hotspot areas that are characterized by increased data traffic. Additionally, it can be used to provide secure communication services under emergency circumstances. In this report, we review recent R&D trends in wireless network technology employing the UAV-assisted mobile FSO technique and key technologies for mobile FSO wireless networks. Furthermore, we introduce drone-based mobile FSO terminals and control systems that we have developed.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제42권5호
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• pp.700-711
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• 2020

Because of the rapid increase of mobile traffic, flexible broadband supportive unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based 6G mobile networks using free space optical (FSO) links have been recently proposed. Considering the advancements made in UAVs, big data processing, and artificial intelligence precision control technologies, the formation of an additional wireless network based on UAV aerial platforms to assist the existing fixed base stations of the mobile radio access network is considered a highly viable option in the near future. In this paper, a combined time bound optimization scheme is proposed that can adaptively satisfy the control and communication time constraints as well as the processing time constraints in FSO-based 6G UAV aerial networks. The proposed scheme controls the relation between the number of data flows, input data rate, number of worker nodes considering the time bounds, and the errors that occur during communication and data processing. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme is very effective in satisfying the time constraints for UAV control and radio access network services, even when errors in communication and data processing may occur.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.405-409
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• 2020

This paper proposes time management system for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network. The computers of the UAVs need time synchronization that time offset does not exceed the minimum interval of data samples for errorless data blending between the computers. The proposed time management system is composed of time synchronization and general management systems for UAV control. The systems communicate each other for time information and control signals. The synchronization system uses improved version of existing time offset estimation that network time protocol (NTP) uses. The time synchronization is operated when the time offset of any UAV exceeds threshold that preconfigured by the general management system. The demonstration of prototype shows stable time synchronization satisfying preconfigured threshold.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권12호
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• pp.4682-4705
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• 2020

The Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) networks consisting of low-cost UAVs are very vulnerable to smart jammers that can choose their jamming policies based on the ongoing communication policies accordingly. In this article, we propose a novel cloud and edge-aided mobile communication scheme for low-cost UAV network against smart jamming. The challenge of this problem is to design a communication scheme that not only meets the requirements of defending against smart jamming attack, but also can be deployed on low-cost UAV platforms. In addition, related studies neglect the problem of decision-making algorithm failure caused by intermittent ground-to-air communication. In this scheme, we use the policy network deployed on the cloud and edge servers to generate an emergency policy tables, and regularly update the generated policy table to the UAVs to solve the decision-making problem when communications are interrupted. In the operation of this communication scheme, UAVs need to offload massive computing tasks to the cloud or the edge servers. In order to prevent these computing tasks from being offloaded to a single computing resource, we deployed a lightweight game algorithm to ensure that the three types of computing resources, namely local, edge and cloud, can maximize their effectiveness. The simulation results show that our communication scheme has only a small decrease in the SINR of UAVs network in the case of momentary communication interruption, and the SINR performance of our algorithm is higher than that of the original Q-learning algorithm.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.535-544
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• 2017

본 논문은 UAV의 RF방식에 따른 정보 송수신의 한계를 극복하기 위해 이동통신 기반의 비행 중인 수 많은 UAV의 위치를 동시에 확인하고 관제를 N:N으로 할 수 있도록, LTE모뎀을 경량 및 저전력 기술을 활용하여 운행중인 UAV에 대한 정보를 수신하고 통제 할 수 있는 방안을 연구하였다. 본 연구를 통해 언제 어디서든지 네트워크에 접속하여 고해상도의 영상을 전송하여 실시간 위치추적 관제 할 수 있는 방안을 제시 하고, 이를 위해 LTE기반의 UAV의 통신 모듈 시스템을 제시함으로써 실시간 고속의 데이터 통신 기술을(3G, 4G LTE, 블루투스) 활용하여 LTE 모뎀의 요구사항 및 기준 요건을 제시하여 비행 중인 UAV의 동시 모니터링을 위한 N:N 관제 체계 개념 및 구현 기술(관제 시스템 구조, 관제 데이터 흐름도, 비행계획 수립 및 전송, 실시간 위치추적) 검증에 대해서 연구하였다.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.387-393
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• 2021

This paper proposes a system to synchronize the time of computers over an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network. With the proposed system, the UAVs can perform missions that require precise relative time. Also, data collected by UAVs can be fused precisely with synchronized time. In the system, to synchronize the time of all computers over the UAV network, two-step synchronization is performed. In the first step, the mission computers of the UAVs are synchronized through the server of the system. After the first step, the mission computers measure time offset between the time of the mission computers and the flight computers. The offset values are delivered to the server. In the second step, virtual time is determined by the server from the collected time offset. The measured offset is compensated by moving the synchronized time of mission computers to the reasonable virtual time. Since only the time of mission computers are controlled, any flight computers that use micro air vehicle link (MAVLink) protocol can be synchronized in the proposed system.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39C권12호
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• pp.1250-1260
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 허브 네트워크 기반의 장거리 공중 전술 통신을 위한 새로운 자원 스케줄링 기법을 제안한다. 최근 세계 각국에서는 네트워크 중심전 (NCW, Network Centric Warfare)으로 변화하는 현대전의 흐름에 맞추어 공용데이터링크 (CDL, Common Data Link)의 전송속도 및 네트워킹 기능을 향상시키기 위한 기술 개발에 주력하고 있으며, 우리 군도 자립적인 차세대 대용량 CDL 기술 개발에 박차를 가하고 있다. CDL의 대표적 운용 구조인 허브 네트워크에서는 제한된 주파수 대역 내에서 다수의 UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)들과 대용량의 영상 전술 정보를 동시 다발적으로 교환하기 위해, hybrid FDMA(Frequency Division Multiple Access)/TDMA(Time Division Multiple Access) 구조를 고려할 수 있다. 그러나 UAV 별 상이한 왕복 시간 지연 (RTT, Round-Trip Time) 및 트래픽 크기로 인해 동일 주파수 대역을 점유하는 UAV 간 유휴 시간 자원이 발생하거나 불필요한 패킷 전송 지연이 발생할 수 있으며, 이는 장거리 운용 시 허브 네트워크의 자원 효율을 저하시킨다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 UAV 별 발생하는 RTT와 트래픽 크기를 기반으로 하는 반복적 정렬 알고리즘을 통해 UAV의 시간/주파수 자원을 스케줄링하는 기법을 제안한다. 성능 평가를 통해 제안 기법이 낮은 복잡도로 데이터 처리율과 패킷 지연 측면의 성능 향상이 가능함을 입증하였다.