The Harvard UAV Networking Lab investigates ad-hoc aerial wireless
networks.
We envision flying aerial grids that can provide on-demand and instant
networking infrastructure for airborne and ground clients. Such grids
would support monitoring, real-time imagery, planning, control,
connectivity and many other applications, both in civilian and
military realms.
We have constructed a testbed consisting of multiple UAVs and ground
nodes that are equipped with 802.11 Wi-Fi and have performed
field experiments aimed at collecting link measurement data under
different flight environments, characteristics and maneuvers. We
believe this novel problem domain will reveal new opportunities for
network protocol design, optimization strategies, and applications.
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One of our testbed UAVs.
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