Impact of Initial Target Position on Performance of UAV Surveillance Using Opportunistic Resource Utilization Networks

• Published in: 2015 IEEE 34th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems Workshop (SRDSW) pp. 57 - 61
• Main Authors: Lilien, Leszek T., Ben Othmane, Lotfi, Angin, Pelin, Bhargava, Bharat, Salih, Raed M., DeCarlo, Andrew
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.09.2015
• Subjects: Acoustic arrays; Acoustics; Ad hoc networks; intelligence; MANET; Mobile computing; oppnets; opportunistic resource utilization networks; Sensors; simulation; Spaceborne radar; Surveillance; surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR); UAV networking; UCAS
• DOI: 10.1109/SRDSW.2015.11

We propose application of Opportunistic Resource Utilization Networks (Oppnets), a novel type of Mobile Ad Hoc NETworks (MANETs), for ad hoc networking of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in surveillance missions. Oppnets provide effective resource virtualization and adaption to highly dynamic and unstable nature of MANETs. They can be viewed as middleware to facilitate building flexible and adaptive distributed systems that provide all kinds of resources or services to the requesting application via the so called helper mechanism. The simulation study focuses on the impact of an initial target position on the performance of Oppnet-based UAV surveillance systems. We find that detection success ratios and time to detect a target are negligibly affected by the initial target position in the surveillance area when UAVs expand up their Oppnet quickly, but strongly affected by the initial target position when UAVs are slow in building up their Oppnet.