Abstract:In this article, we describe how a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can optimize communication performances by having its members independently change their orientations. This distributed solution, based on a hill-climbing approach, relies on information available locally at each node, namely the reception power of the received frames. The solution is evaluated using the ns-3 network simulator, whose source code is modified to be able to deal with nonisotropic antennas in the context of Wi-Fi networks,… Show more
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