TY - JOUR T1 - Performance Analysis of Distributed Multiple Access Protocols for UAV Swarm Networks AU - Lee, Min AU - Lee, Hojin AU - You, Youngbin AU - Ahn, Jaeha AU - Lee, Howon JO - The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences PY - 2025 DA - 2025/1/1 DO - 10.7840/kics.2025.50.2.300 KW - UAV swarm network KW - distributed multiple access protocol AB - In Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarm networks composed of dozens to hundreds of small UAVs, accurate and fast information exchange is essential for collaboration between UAVs. In this paper, we propose a distributed multiple access protocol that is simple while providing excellent performance for UAV swarm networks. In addition, we evaluate the transmission success rate and average delay performance of the proposed method through simulations.