Our paper entitled “Network Analysis of Connectivity Optimized Multi-UAV Path Planners” is accepted for publication in 17th IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Networked Robotics and Communication Systems (ex WISARN).

In this work, we analyze the network performance of several connectivity -optimized multi-UAV path planners. We analyze jointly optimized as well as relay assisted UAV networks. Our results show that topologically connected multi-UAV paths do not necessarily lead to acceptable network performance in terms of packet delivery rates and throughput. Mobile relay assisted scenarios perform as well as static relay scenarios with less than half the number of relay nodes. Jointly optimized schemes perform well with low number of UAVs when the transmission ranges are high or the number of nodes is low, where hub nodes are less likely to occur.