UAV Assisted Disruption Tolerant Routing

Author

Le, Michael ; Park, Joon-Sang ; Gerla, Mario

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Dept., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA

fYear

2006

fDate

23-25 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In order to provide network connectivity in highly partitioned ad-hoc networks, we propose a routing strategy that incorporates an existing ad-hoc routing protocol, ad hoc on demand distance vector (AODV), with disruption tolerant networking (DTN) a la store-carry-forward mechanisms using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as carriers. This paper focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of the routing strategy. The major contribution of this work is the implementation of our DTN aware routing protocol on top of existing and mostly unmodified AODV. We show the advantage of the DTN protocol through simulation using ns-2

Keywords

ad hoc networks; remotely operated vehicles; routing protocols; AODV; DTN; UAV; ad hoc on demand distance vector; disruption tolerant networking; network connectivity; ns-2 simulation; routing protocol; store-carry-forward mechanism; unmanned aerial vehicle; Ad hoc networks; Bandwidth; Communication system control; Computer science; Disruption tolerant networking; Mobile communication; Motion control; Network interfaces; Routing protocols; Unmanned aerial vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2006. MILCOM 2006. IEEE

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0617-X

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0618-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2006.302310

Filename

4086592