Title : 
MAC performance improvement in UAV ad-hoc networks with full-duplex radios and multi-packet reception capability
         
        
            Author : 
Cai, Yegui ; Yu, F. Richard ; Li, Jun ; Zhou, Yifeng ; Lamont, Louise
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Syst. & Comput. Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, ON, Canada
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Recent advances in interference cancellation and signal processing techniques can enable full-duplex radios and multi-packet reception (MPR) capability, which will have significant impacts on the medium access control (MAC) design. In this paper, we study the MAC design in UAV ad-hoc networks with full-duplex radios and MPR. To efficiently handle the highly mobile environment of a UAV ad-hoc network, a token-based technique is used for updating information in the network. The MAC scheme in the presence of perfect and imperfect channel state information are formulated as a combinatorial optimization problem and a discrete stochastic optimization problem, respectively. Simulation results are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed MAC.
         
        
            Keywords : 
access protocols; aircraft communication; autonomous aerial vehicles; combinatorial mathematics; mobile ad hoc networks; radio reception; stochastic programming; MAC performance improvement; MPR capability; UAV ad hoc networks; combinatorial optimization problem; discrete stochastic optimization problem; full-duplex radios; imperfect channel state information; interference cancellation; medium access control design; mobile environment; multipacket reception capability; perfect channel state information; signal processing techniques; token-based technique; unmanned aerial vehicles; Ad hoc networks; Channel estimation; Delay; Interference; Optimization; Signal to noise ratio; Wireless communication;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Communications (ICC), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Ottawa, ON
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4577-2052-9
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
1550-3607
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICC.2012.6364116