Reliable M2M/IoT data delivery from FANETs via satellite

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is rising in several application fields. This work deals with the communication challenges in UAV swarms, or Flying Ad-Hoc Networks (FANET), when taking into account non-line-of sight scenarios. The use of satellites is a necessity in such operating conditions, thus this work provides architectural considerations and performance assessments when several FANETs share an uplink Random Access (RA) satellite channel, fed with M2M/IoT traffic generated from onboard sensors, to be reliably delivered to a remote ground destination.