Abstract
Unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) that swarm with both autonomous decision-making and cooperative attacking have beenregarded as revolutionary elements of modern warfare. In such aswarm, inter-group connectivity must be ensured in a networkto maintain a collective consensus. In recent years, academiaand industry have made many efforts to achieve common tacticaldata link systems and commercial drone networks. However, theexisting results have difficulty meeting the needs of cooperativeautonomous UCAV swarms with both hypersonic mobility and timesensitivity in severe confrontation scenarios. In this article, weconduct an in-depth investigation of the network used for thehypersonic UCAV swarms, which can be considered as a special formof mobile wireless network. Furthermore, faced with specificfunctional demands, we summarize the main challenges of designing this dedicated network. In addition, acomprehensive survey of potential solutions for the network designis presented. Lastly, we discuss the possible capabilities of the networkgiven the current forefront of technology, as well as remaining challenges and open issues.
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