In many incidents involving amateur drones (ADr), the big challenge is to quickly deploy\na surveillance system that countermeasures the threat and keeps track of the intruders. Depending on\nthe area under concern, launching a single surveillance drone (SDr) to hunt the intruder is not\nefficient, but employing multiple ones can cope with the problem. However, in order to make this\napproach feasible, an easy to use mission setup and control station for multiple SDr is required, which\nby its turn, requires a communication infrastructure able to handle the connection of multiple SDr\namong themselves and their ground control and payload visualization station. Concerning this Issue, this paper presents a proposal of a network infrastructure to support the operation of multiple SDr and its practical deployment. This infrastructure extends the existing Micro Air Vehicle Link\n(MAVLink) protocol to support multiple connections among the SDrs and between them and a\nground control station. Encouraging results are obtained, showing the viability of this proposed\nprotocol extension.
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