Dynamic Routing for Flying Ad Hoc Networks

This paper reports experimental results on self-organizing wireless networks carried by small flying robots. Flying ad hoc networks (FANETs) composed of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are flexible, inexpensive, and fast to deploy. This makes them a very attractive technology for many civilian and military applications. Due to the high mobility of the nodes, maintaining a communication link between the UAVs is a challenging task. The topology of these networks is more dynamic than that of typical mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) and of typical vehicle ad hoc networks. As a consequence, the existing routing protocols designed for MANETs partly fail in tracking network topology changes. In this paper, the authors compare two different routing algorithms for ad hoc networks: optimized link-state routing (OLSR) and predictive OLSR (P-OLSR). The latter is an OLSR extension that the authors designed for FANETs; it takes advantage of the Global Positioning System (GPS) information available on board. To the best of the authors' knowledge, P-OLSR is currently the only FANET-specific routing technique that has an available Linux implementation. The authors present results obtained by both media-access-control (MAC) layer emulations and real-world experiments. In the experiments, the authors used a testbed composed of two autonomous fixed-wing UAVs and a node on the ground. The experiments evaluate the link performance and the communication range, as well as the routing performance. The emulation and experimental results show that P-OLSR significantly outperforms OLSR in routing in the presence of frequent network topology changes.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2015.2414819
• Availability:
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of IEEE.
• Authors:
  • Rosati, S
  • Krużelecki, K
  • Heitz, G
  • Floreano, D
  • Rimoldi, B
• Publication Date: 2016-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 1690-1700
• Serial:
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
  • Volume: 65
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • ISSN: 0018-9545
  • Serial URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=25

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Drones; Mobile computing; Optimization; Routing; Topology; Vehicular ad hoc networks
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Data and Information Technology;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01598052
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 28 2016 2:47PM