Performance Analysis of Perimeter Surveillance Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has seen exceptional growth over the past decade and become easily accessible to everyone. One of the key features that makes UAV attractive is the ability to provide the aerial perspective. This is particular the case for security and military purposes, i.e., security patrol and aerial surveillance. This paper offers the performance analysis of perimeter surveillance system comprising of multiple UAVs. These UAVs perform a surveillance task along the predefined perimeter and are capable of communicating. The key metrics under investigations are packet delivery rate, average packet delay, average network throughput, and average hop count. Through a simulation study, we demonstrate how numbers of UAVs and their mobility profile have an effect on key network metrics as well as determine the condition of optimality.