A Flocking-Based on Demand Routing Protocol for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

The interest shown by some community of researchers to autonomous drones or UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) has increased with the advent of wireless communication networks. These networks allow UAVs to cooperate more efficiently in an ad hoc manner in order to achieve specific tasks in specific env...

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Published in:Journal of computer science and technology Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 263 - 276
Main Authors: El Houda Bahloul, Nour, Boudjit, Saadi, Abdennebi, Marwen, Boubiche, Djallel Eddine
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York Springer US 01.03.2018
Springer
Springer Nature B.V
L2TI Laboratory, University of Paris 13, Villetaneuse 93430, France%L2TI Laboratory, University of Paris 13, Villetaneuse 93430, France%LaSTIC Laboratory, University of Batna 2, Batna 05078, Algeria
LaSTIC Laboratory, University of Batna 2, Batna 05078, Algeria
Subjects:
Advertising executives
Artificial Intelligence
Communication networks
Computer Science
Data Structures and Information Theory
Drone aircraft
Drone vehicles
Drones
Ground stations
Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)
Regular Paper
Route planning
Routing (telecommunications)
Software Engineering
Theory of Computation
Unmanned aerial vehicles
Wireless communications
Wireless networks
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
Boids of Reynolds
AODV
mobility control
ISSN:1000-9000, 1860-4749
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Summary:The interest shown by some community of researchers to autonomous drones or UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) has increased with the advent of wireless communication networks. These networks allow UAVs to cooperate more efficiently in an ad hoc manner in order to achieve specific tasks in specific environments. To do so, each drone navigates autonomously while staying connected with other nodes in its group via radio links. This connectivity can deliberately be maintained for a while constraining the mobility of the drones. This will be suitable for the drones involved in a given path of a given transmission between a source and a destination. This constraint could be removed at the end of the transmission process and the mobility of each concerned drone becomes again independent from the others. In this work, we proposed a flocking-based routing protocol for UAVs called BR-AODV. The protocol takes advantage of a well known ad hoc routing protocol for on-demand route computation, and the Boids of Reynolds mechanism for connectivity and route maintaining while data is being transmitted. Moreover, an automatic ground base stations discovery mechanism has been introduced for a proactive drones and ground networks association needed for the context of real-time applications. The performance of BR-AODV was evaluated and compared with that of classical AODV routing protocol and the results show that BR-AODV outperforms AODV in terms of delay, throughput and packet loss.
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ISSN:1000-9000
1860-4749
DOI:10.1007/s11390-018-1818-3