2018 MILCOM

Technical Panel: Resource Sharing in a Network of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Drones (Room Dallas)

29 Oct 18
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Unclassified Technical Panels

Speaker(s): Nora Ayanian, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair, University of Southern California; Pavel Loskot, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in Information and System Engineering, Swansea University; Curtis White, Senior Systems Research Engineer, SPAWAR - LANT/SAT; Jack L. Burbank, Senior Wireless Network Engineer, Sabre Systems

Moderator(s): Mohan Kumar, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Computer Science Department, College of Computing and Information Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology;

In the near future, networks of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and drones will be a common feature in military as well as civilian applications. In order to be effective, teams of UAVs/drones will need to communicate and collaborate to perform application level tasks. As each entity carries varying​ resources (information, software services, channel bandwidth, hardware, etc.), it will be critical to share these resources.  The panel will raise thought provoking discussion with regard to resource sharing, communications, security, privacy, policies and other issues that will be encountered when a network of unmanned aerial vehicles and drones work in collaboration.