Designing, Deployment and Field Testing of C2Stack for Networked Intelligent Software-Defined UAVs
作者: Maxwell McManus, Josh Zhang, Sidharth Santhinivas, Yuqing Cui, Prem Sagar Pattanshetty Vasanth Kumar, Chenzhi Zhao, Nicholas Mastronarde, George Sklivanitis, Dimitris A. Pados, Elizabeth S. Bentley, Zhangyu Guan
摘要
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are emerging as critical enablers of next-generation wireless networking and autonomous systems. Despite their potential, deploying and testing networked UAV systems in real-world environments remains challenging, largely due to the absence of well-developed, end-to-end, ready-to-use protocol stacks. To fill this gap, we present C2Stack, a configurable protocol stack and experimental framework designed for real-time control, evaluation, and optimization of UAV networks. C2Stack incorporates a modular control plane, referred to as the C2Stack Network Operating System (CNOS), alongside a programmable data plane that exposes APIs for cross-layer algorithm development, digital twin integration, and autonomous swarm control.