Monitoring signal strength of signal identified from unmanned aerial vehicle

A network device, comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• a processor executing instructions from the memory to:
• monitor a communication channel of the network device in a wireless local area network;
• detect a signal identified as being transmitted by an unmanned aerial vehicle on the communication channel;
• transmit a de-authentication frame with a duty cycle of a predetermined value in the communication channel;
• monitor a received signal strength indicator of the signal identified from the unmanned aerial vehicle;
• determine a received signal strength indicator of the signal at a first instance of time and at a second instance of time after the first instance of time;
• increase the duty cycle of the de-authentication frame at the second instance of time if the received signal strength indicator of the signal increases between the first instance of time and the second instance of time;
• and
• decrease the duty cycle of the de-authentication frame at the second instance of time if the received signal strength indicator of the signal decreases between the first instance of time and the second instance of time.

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by at least one processor of a network device, the machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions to:

• monitor a communication channel of the network device in a wireless local area network;
• detect a signal identified as being transmitted by an unmanned aerial vehicle on the communication channel;
• transmit a disassociation frame with a duty cycle of a predetermined value in the communication channel;
• and
• monitor a received signal strength indicator of the signal identified from the unmanned aerial vehicle;
• determine a received signal strength indicator of the signal at a first instance of time and at a second instance of time after the first instance of time;
• increase the duty cycle of the disassociation frame at the second instance of time if the received signal strength indicator of the signal increases between the first instance of time and the second instance of time;
• and
• decrease the duty cycle of the disassociation frame at the second instance of time if the received signal strength indicator of the signal decreases between the first instance of time and the second instance of time.