On Optimizing Drones’ Communications Under Different Radio Coverage Conditions

The Internet of Drones (IoD) architecture is quickly gaining momentum thanks to its inherent ability to capitalize the pros of both Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and networking technologies. This work discusses a scenario involving a drone carrying out a surveying mission along a predefined path. With the aim of maximizing the gathered and transmitted high resolution video signals, a comparative study is proposed, encompassing two different radio coverage conditions. The resulting optimization problems are solved with different techniques: one of them is solved in closed-form expression, while the other one is approached using Linear Programming (LP). Simulation results are also presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed solutions.