QDV - A QoS Enabled Packet Scheduling Scheme for Mobile WiMAX in UAV Swarms

For the reliable control of Micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (MUAV) using IP based networks it is of high importance to assure certain quality of service warranties for the transmission of control information. The mobile WiMAX standard IEEE 802.16e defines five QoS Classes which represent different requirements concerning data rate and delay. The scheduling scheme which is used to fulfill these requirements can be independently chosen by the network operator. In this paper we present a novel QoS aware scheduling scheme which can be parameterized in a very flexible and simple way and therefore enables the network operator to set up the service guarantees very accurate depending on the specific requirements. This is of special importance in the case that WiMAX is used for untypical applications such as for example the control of UAVs and therewith the requirements do not exactly match the predefined QoS classes.