Feasibility of communication planning in Airborne Networks using mission information

Tiwari, Abhishek; Ganguli, Anurag; Kothari, Aditya; Avadhanam, Sharath; Yadegar, Jacob; Compton, M.; Hopkinson, Kenneth M.

doi:10.1109/milcom.2009.5379740

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“…FP is usually used for aerial transportation purposes where the full trajectory is planned beforehand. It has been adopted in particular in [137], [138].…”

Section: Path-based Mobility Modelsmentioning

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Routing in Flying Ad Hoc Networks: Survey, Constraints, and Future Challenge Perspectives

Oubbati¹,

Atiquzzaman²,

Lorenz³

et al. 2019

IEEE Access

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Owing to the explosive expansion of wireless communication and networking technologies, cost-effective unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have recently emerged and soon they will occupy the major part of our sky. UAVs can be exploited to efficiently accomplish complex missions when cooperatively organized as an ad hoc network, thus creating the well-known flying ad hoc networks (FANETs). The establishment of such networks is not feasible without deploying an efficient networking model allowing a reliable exchange of information between UAVs. FANET inherits common features and characteristics from mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) and their sub-classes, such as vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) and wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Unfortunately, UAVs are often deployed in the sky adopting a mobility model dictated by the nature of missions that they are expected to handle, and therefore, differentiate themselves from any traditional networks. Moreover, several flying constraints and the highly dynamic topology of FANETs make the design of routing protocols a complicated task. In this paper, a comprehensive survey is presented covering the architecture, the constraints, the mobility models, the routing techniques, and the simulation tools dedicated to FANETs. A classification, descriptions, and comparative studies of an important number of existing routing protocols dedicated to FANETs are detailed. Furthermore, the paper depicts future challenge perspectives, helping scientific researchers to discover some themes that have been addressed only ostensibly in the literature and need more investigation. The novelty of this survey is its uniqueness to provide a complete analysis of the major FANET routing protocols and to critically compare them according to different constraints based on crucial parameters, thus better presenting the state of the art of this specific area of research.INDEX TERMS UAV, FANET, mobility, simulation, routing protocols. TABLE 2. FANET communication comparison. C. FANET CHARACTERISTICSEach mission or application comes with different requirements in terms of the number of UAVs, the flight time, and the communication constraints. This diversifies the characteristics of FANETs and makes them unique, which differentiate them from other kinds of ad hoc networks. In this section, we provide a detailed description of the most crucial FANET characteristics that are considered during the deployment of such networks. 1) NODE SPEEDThe LAUs are considered as the most studied categories of UAVs. In this category, we distinguish two kinds of UAVs: (i) Rotary-Wing (RW) UAVs and (ii) Fixed-Wing (FW) UAVs [61]. In a general case, the mobility of both types of

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“…FP is usually used for aerial transportation purposes where the full trajectory is planned beforehand. It has been adopted in particular in [137], [138].…”

Section: Path-based Mobility Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Routing in Flying Ad Hoc Networks: Survey, Constraints, and Future Challenge Perspectives

Oubbati¹,

Atiquzzaman²,

Lorenz³

et al. 2019

IEEE Access

211

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“…Tiwari et al observe, in [15], that a priori knowledge may be a key to better performance in both military and commercial airborne networks. They discuss the advantages of using mission plans to improve communication planning, and propose a protocol for exchanging flight path information.…”

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Simulating large-scale airborne networks with ns-3

Newton

Aikat

Jeffay

2015

Proceedings of the 2015 Workshop on Ns-3

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Large-scale airborne networks, which connect airborne nodes with high-bandwidth communication links are being actively pursued commercially . We propose utilizing thousands of operational passenger and cargo aircraft as the principal components of an airborne network which could provide high-speed Internet to passengers on-board and on the ground. To simulate such a network we have augmented the ns-3 network simulator with a model for ingesting and processing aircraft position information, a steerable directional antenna model, a wireless point-to-point channel and associated net devices, and a distributed topology control application to manage the topology of the mesh network. We describe our implementation of these models and some tools for visualizing airborne networks. Using a simulation of a large airborne network, covering the United States, we perform experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of using the Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR) to route network traffic. Our simulations lead us to conclude that OLSR is likely not a good fit for our envisioned network.

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“…In order to achieve tactical intent coordination in ATNs, the command and control (C2) platform in the backbone network ought to multicast mission assignment messages to a certain group of tactical aircrafts in edge networks [6,7]. Due to the unstable wireless channel state during warfare, temporal out-of-sequence packets often occur [8] and frequent packet loss may be caused [9].…”

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IDR: Intent‐driven routing strategy for reliable and cost‐effective multicasting in airborne tactical networks

Pan,

Lyu,

Yang

2024

Electronics Letters

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Traditional multicast routing strategies can hardly meet the demanding requirements of multicasting mission assignment messages in airborne tactical networks. This letter proposes an intent‐driven routing strategy, termed as IDR, to realize reliable and efficient multicast. IDR exploits bit index explicit replication technique to encode not only the destination information but also the retransmission information into packet headers. If part of the multicast members failed to receive the packet, IDR can perceive the error and retransmit the packet to the precise set of nodes. Compared to the state‐of‐the‐art reliable multicast routing methods, IDR can enhance multicast retransmission success rate by about 10% or more and reduce retransmission overhead by around 50%.

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Feasibility of communication planning in Airborne Networks using mission information

Cited by 6 publications

References 7 publications

Routing in Flying Ad Hoc Networks: Survey, Constraints, and Future Challenge Perspectives

Routing in Flying Ad Hoc Networks: Survey, Constraints, and Future Challenge Perspectives

Simulating large-scale airborne networks with ns-3

IDR: Intent‐driven routing strategy for reliable and cost‐effective multicasting in airborne tactical networks

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