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Chapter 8
Cyber-Physical System
Modeling on Cognitive
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Communications
Mengcheng Guo, Fei Hu, and Yang-ki Hong
8.1 Introduction
e unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is widely used in military and civilian applications. It can be
used for field surveillance through the cameras deployed in the UAV body. However, when the
UAVs are deployed in complicated radio signal conditions, it is a challenging issue to maintain the
communication performance such as throughput and transmission delay.
is chapter reports part of our work by the UAV video communication testing group at the
University of Alabama. We propose to use the cognitive ...