MAC performance improvement in UAV ad-hoc networks with full-duplex radios and multi-packet reception capability

Author

Cai, Yegui ; Yu, F. Richard ; Li, Jun ; Zhou, Yifeng ; Lamont, Louise

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. & Comput. Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, ON, Canada

fYear

2012

fDate

10-15 June 2012

Firstpage

523

Lastpage

527

Abstract

Recent advances in interference cancellation and signal processing techniques can enable full-duplex radios and multi-packet reception (MPR) capability, which will have significant impacts on the medium access control (MAC) design. In this paper, we study the MAC design in UAV ad-hoc networks with full-duplex radios and MPR. To efficiently handle the highly mobile environment of a UAV ad-hoc network, a token-based technique is used for updating information in the network. The MAC scheme in the presence of perfect and imperfect channel state information are formulated as a combinatorial optimization problem and a discrete stochastic optimization problem, respectively. Simulation results are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed MAC.

Keywords

access protocols; aircraft communication; autonomous aerial vehicles; combinatorial mathematics; mobile ad hoc networks; radio reception; stochastic programming; MAC performance improvement; MPR capability; UAV ad hoc networks; combinatorial optimization problem; discrete stochastic optimization problem; full-duplex radios; imperfect channel state information; interference cancellation; medium access control design; mobile environment; multipacket reception capability; perfect channel state information; signal processing techniques; token-based technique; unmanned aerial vehicles; Ad hoc networks; Channel estimation; Delay; Interference; Optimization; Signal to noise ratio; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications (ICC), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, ON

ISSN

1550-3607

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2052-9

Electronic_ISBN

1550-3607

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2012.6364116

Filename

6364116