RT Conference Proceedings T1 Multi-interface network framework for UAV management and data communications A1 Sánchez Agüero, Víctor A1 Fas-Millán, Miguel Ángel A1 Valera Pintor, Francisco A1 Vidal Fernández, Iván A1 Paniagua Tineo, Alejandro A1 López da Silva, Rafael A. A1 Manjón, José Manuel AB Recent efforts to manage Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) operations in European civilian environments have resulted in the development of U-space, the European Union’s UAS Traffic Management (UTM) concept of operations. This paper presents the primary purposes of the H2020 Labyrinth project (mainly focusing on the communications architecture), which has as its main challenge to create and validate UAV applications through the research and development of path-planning algorithms and new UTM services. In addition, this article performs a preliminary validation of a communications prototype (including three communication alternatives) with real equipment of the National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA) of the Spanish Ministry of Defense. The presented results show the functionality of the prototypes and serve as a starting point to develop the requirements defined in the communications architecture. PB IEEE SN 978-1-6654-2390-8 YR 2022 FD 2022-01-24 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/36818 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/36818 LA eng NO Proceeding of 2021 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), Madrid, Spain, 7-11 December 2021. NO This article has been supported by the H2020 Labyrinth project (grant agreement 861696), and the TRUE5G project funded by the Spanish National Research Agency (PID2019-108713RB681 C52/AEI/10.13039/501100011033), the Madrid Government (Comunidad de Madrid-Spain) under the Multiannual Agreement with UC3M in the line of Excellence of University Professors (EPUC3M21), and in the context of the V PRICIT (Regional Programme of Research and Technological Innovation). DS e-Archivo RD 17 jul. 2024