Experimental performance analysis of two-hop aerial 802.11 networks

Author

Yanmaz, Evsen ; Hayat, Samira ; Scherer, Jurgen ; Bettstetter, Christian

Author_Institution

Inst. of Networked & Embedded Syst., Alpen-Adria-Univ. Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria

fYear

2014

fDate

6-9 April 2014

Firstpage

3118

Lastpage

3123

Abstract

Small-scale multicopters operating as autonomous teams in the air are envisioned for aerial monitoring and transport of goods in a variety of applications, including disaster management and environmental monitoring. For such applications to become reality, a high-throughput wireless network is needed. This paper presents experimental performance results with commercially available quadrocopters communicating via IEEE 802.11a. In particular, we compare the infrastructure and mesh modes of 802.11 for one-hop and two-hop communications, thus analyzing network layer versus MAC layer relaying. Results illustrate that changes are required in the mesh mode to support applications demanding high throughput with low jitter.

Keywords

access protocols; aircraft communication; autonomous aerial vehicles; helicopters; relay networks (telecommunication); wireless LAN; wireless mesh networks; IEEE 802.11a; MAC layer relaying; aerial monitoring; autonomous teams; disaster management; environmental monitoring; experimental performance analysis; goods transport; high-throughput wireless network; low jitter; mesh modes; network layer analysis; one-hop communications; quadrocopters; small-scale multicopters; two-hop aerial 802.11 networks; two-hop communications; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Mesh networks; Throughput; Wireless networks; 802.11; UAVs; aerial networks; drones; mesh networks; multicopters; quadrotors; vehicular networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2014.6953010

Filename

6953010