Title :
Routing in unmanned aerial ad hoc networks: Introducing a route reliability criterion
Author :
Biomo, Jean-Daniel Medjo Me ; Kunz, Thomas ; St-Hilaire, Marc
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Syst. & Comput. Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, ON, Canada
Abstract :
The Reactive-Greedy-Reactive (RGR) protocol, as proposed in [2], is a routing protocol specifically designed for unmanned aeronautical ad hoc networks. Since RGR is based on the Ad Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV), the routes with the least number of hops are ultimately preferred during the route discovery. Overall, freshness and path length (in hops) are the two criteria that govern route selection. In this paper, we improve the process of route selection in RGR by adding a criterion based on route reliability/stability. Route stability here is measured by means of a concept called reliable distance. Route selection will prefer reliable routes before considering route length and freshness. Simulations in Opnet show a considerable improvement in performance at virtually no additional cost.
Keywords :
autonomous aerial vehicles; mobile ad hoc networks; routing protocols; telecommunication network reliability; AODV; Opnet simulation; ad hoc on-demand distance vector; path length; reactive-greedy-reactive protocol; route discovery; route reliability criterion; route selection; route stability; routing protocol; unmanned aerial ad hoc networks; unmanned aeronautical ad hoc networks; Delays; Routing; Routing protocols; Stability analysis; AODV; MANET; RGR; Reliable distance; Route stability; UAANET;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC), 2014 7th IFIP
Conference_Location :
Vilamoura
DOI :
10.1109/WMNC.2014.6878853