Evaluating flight coordination approaches of UAV squads for WSN data collection enhancing the internet range on WSN data collection

Journal of Internet Services and Applications

Table 2 Notation used in this work

Symbol	Definition	Used Values	Symbol	Definition	Used Values
p	Number of CH	70, 140 & 700	s	UAV speed	20m/s
v	Number of UAVs	2, 4, 8 & 16	T	Period of Data Collection	72 hours
A	CH Distribution Area	700 km²	pt	UAV (re)preparation time	10 min
h	Flight height	50 meters	B	UAV flight endurance	16 hours
R	Radio range	100 meters	MP	Message payload	72 bytes
S	Radio range path segment	71 meters	ρ	Radio transmition rate	250Kb/s
q	QUDG	10%	FT	UAV failTax	10%
c	Connection probability	90%	MBTF	UAV failPeriod MTBF	20 hours
α	SINR alfa	2	C_i	Data creation tax	1B/seg
β	SINR beta	0.7	γ	SINR noise	0.1