Experiment and field demonstration of a 802.11-based ground-UAV mobile ad-hoc network

Author

Danilov, Claudiu ; Henderson, Thomas R. ; Goff, Thomas ; Kim, Jae H. ; Macker, Joseph ; Weston, Jeff ; Neogi, Natasha ; Ortiz, Andres ; Uhlig, Daniel

Author_Institution

Boeing Res. & Technol., Seattle, WA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

18-21 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

This paper describes a field demonstration and presents the network performance of an 802.11 ground-UAV network composed of 11 ground stations, a mobile vehicle and two fixed wing UAVs, connected by two routing gateways to a legacy wired network. The network effects demonstrated include mobility, network partitions and merges, and gateway failovers. The paper presents experimental results for recorded data traffic and for the state of the routing protocols, with the mobile nodes participating as sources of data traffic.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; aircraft communication; military communication; remotely operated vehicles; routing protocols; wireless LAN; 802.11 based ground-UAV mobile ad-hoc network; data traffic; gateway failovers; legacy wired network; mobile vehicle; network partitions; routing gateways; routing protocols; unmanned airborne vehicle; Ad hoc networks; Laboratories; Land vehicles; Mobile ad hoc networks; Protocols; Routing; Spine; Telecommunication traffic; Unicast; Unmanned aerial vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2009. MILCOM 2009. IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5238-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5239-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2009.5379932

Filename

5379932