本文为阿拉伯联合酋长国大学（作者：Farhan Mohamed）的硕士论文，共74页。

无人机（UAV）技术的大量最新进展使其在当今社会的许多应用中非常有用且有效，它们在空中表现出高度的稳定性和灵活性。几年前，军事应用是无人机系统发展的主要推动力，它们的许多应用包括监视、数据传输和通信。近年来，无人机技术的发展出现了若干新的机遇，这些机遇包括无人机与智慧城市的融合、灾难恢复、军事和商业监视、环境监测和应急响应。

无人机通信是无人机有效履行其各项任务和职责的重要组成部分。此外，必须使用可信的策略和协议进行无人机通信，以确保相关任务和服务不会受到有意或无意的攻击或损害。另一方面，移动自组织网（MANET）是具有动态拓扑的自治节点的集合，它们为自治组织提供了在多个操作中扩展通信能力的潜力。无人机和MANET有许多共同的特点，因此，一组飞行无人机可以被视为一个MANET，其中的单架无人机被建模为节点。

本文的主要贡献如下：

（1）描述了不同的无人机组网结构；

（2）确定了实现无人机有效通信的MANET协议特点和问题；

（3）阐述了对各种应用环境下不同数据通信的分类以及对无人机有效通信的要求；

（4）无人机可采用的基于信任的不同协议和方案的分类；

（5）军事和商业应用之间关于无人机通信需求的比较；

（6）各种无人机应用的信任协议和方案分类；

（7）提供无人机及其在智慧城市中的应用实例研究。

A large number of recent advancements inthe technology of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have enabled them to be veryuseful and effective in many applications in today’s society. They demonstratea high degree of stability and agility in the air. A few years ago militaryapplications were the main driving force behind the development of UAVs and UAVsystems. Many of their applications included monitoring, surveillance, datatransmission and communication. Recently, several opportunities have emergedand participated in driving the development of UAV technology further ahead.Such opportunities include integration of UAVs with smart cities, disaster recovery,military and commercial surveillance, environmental monitoring, and emergencyresponse. In order for UAVs to perform their various tasks and responsibilitieseffectively, UAV communication becomes an important component. Furthermore,such communication must be done using trusted strategies and protocols so thatthe related missions and services are not attacked or compromised inintentional or un-intentional manners. On the other hand, MobileAd hoc Networks (MANETs) are a collection of autonomous nodes with a dynamictopology. They provide the potential for autonomous group organizations withextended communication capabilities in several operations. UAVs and MANETsshare many common characteristics. Consequently, a group of flying UAVs can beconsidered a MANET where the individual UAVs are modeled as nodes.

The main contributions provided in thisthesis are the following: (1) characterization of different UAV-basednetworking architectures, (2) identification of the characteristics and issuesin MANET protocols that lead to efficient UAV-based communication, (3)classification of different data traffic types and requirements for efficientUAV-based communication in various applications and environments, (4)classification of the different trust-based protocols and schemes that can beadopted by UAVs, (5) comparison of the communication requirements betweenmilitary and commercial applications, (6) classification of trust protocols andschemes for various UAV applications, and (7) providing a case study on UAVsand their applications in Smart Cities.

1 引言

2 项目背景及相关工作

3 无人机应用

4 基于信任的无人机通信

5 结论与未来研究展望

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