Paper Info
Title
Deployment Of Reliable, Simple, And Cost-Effective Medium Access Control Protocols For Multi-Layer Flying Ad-Hoc Networks
Abstract
Driven by the recent advances in electronics and emergence of several radio communication technologies, the production of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has paved the way for the creation of low-cost flying ad-hoc networks (FANETs). Mobility, lack of central control and self-organizing nature between the UAVs are the main features of FANETs, which could expand the connectivity and extend the communication range at infrastructure-less area. On one hand, in case of disastrous situations when ordinary communication infrastructure is not available, FANETs can be used to provide a rapidly deployable, flexible, and self-managed communication network for real-time data transmission. On the other hand, connecting UAVs in ad-hoc mode in such a way to achieve a desired level of Quality-of-Service (QOS) requirements in a cost-effective manner is a daunting task. At the moment complex, expensive and unreliable wireless communication protocols at MAC layer are practiced. However, to enable FANETs system ubiquitous, it is necessary to have a reliable, simple and cost-effective MAC protocols. This paper introduces a novel idea of employing both IEEE 802.15.1 and IEEE 802.11 for multilayer FANETs scenarios. In this approach, data transmission between the member UAVs is done by deploying a low cost and simple 802.15.1, whereas the backbone UAVs will be connected using 802.11 MAC protocol. The proposed scheme considerably reduces communication budget and optimizes network performance. The simulation results also authenticate that the proposed MAC protocols could significantly increase the performance of flying adhoc networks in terms of delay and throughput.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3231053.3231115
ICFNDS'18: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FUTURE NETWORKS AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Ad-hoc Network, UAVs, FANETs, MAC, IEEE 802.15.1
Wireless,Telecommunications network,Data transmission,Computer science,Quality of service,Computer network,Access control,Wireless ad hoc network,Throughput,Network performance
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
6
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Muhammad Asghar Khan185.17
Inam Ullah Khan241.44
Ijaz Mansoor Qureshi315032.37
Muhammad Kashif Alam400.34
Syed Bilal Hussain Shah5174.42
Muhammad Shafiq611434.55