Reliable Flying Ad Hoc Networks for Civil-Military Mission Critical Applications (FANET-MCA)

Purpose and goal:

The project intends to function as an enabler for Flying Ad-Hoc Networks (FANETs) by developing signal processing for time- and frequency-distorted signals, based on directed communication for FANETs, along with efficient routing protocols that can deal with the topological dynamics of these FANETs. The projects cutting-edge solution can scale to a wide range of civil-military system specifications and deployment scenarios.

Expected results and effects:

Modern airborne communication must deal with problems like, e.g., co-channel interference, attempted jamming, Doppler effects and rapid changes in the propagation environment.

This project addresses such challenges towards reliable FANETs ranging from UAV swarms to hypersonic systems via dramatically increased spectrum availability by directed communication, significantly improved robustness by signal processing in the delay-Doppler domain and efficient network topologies and routing protocols

Approach and implementation: Project activities are spread out over three different work packages with distributed workload over project partners.

WP1 provides requirement specifications for civil-military scenarios of high-mobility flying platforms in FANETs for benchmarking WP2 and WP3.

WP2 deals with performance assessment for different propagation scenarios of civil-military mission critical applications. WP3 deals with performance assessment for civil and military scenarios with time-varying connectivity and coverage