Year: 2016
Type: preprint
Abstract: This study explores how a swarm of aerial mobile vehicles can provide network connectivity and meet the stringent requirements of public protection and disaster relief operations. In this context, we design a physics-based controlled mobility strategy, which we name the extended Virtual Force Protocol (VFPe), allowing self-propelled nodes, and in particular here unmanned aerial vehicles, to fly autonomously and cooperatively. In this way, ground devices scattered on the operation site may establish communications through the wireless multi-hop communication routes formed by the network of aerial nodes. We further investigate through simulations the behavior of the VFPe protocol, notably focusing on the way node location information is disseminated into the network as well as on the impact of the number of exploration nodes on the overall network performance.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Institutions: Lyon 1 Université, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique, Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe (United Kingdom), Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme, Laboratoire de Droit des affaires et nouvelles technologies
Language: English
Topic: Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2953174308