Resilient real-time communications across meshed networks under adverse conditions

This paper examines the use of multiple, concurrent communications links to construct a resilient communication network, designed to meet the requirements of guaranteed delivery and minimum latency in a typical, meshed, autonomous vehicle deployment. The ad-hoc on-demand resilient path (AORP) routing protocol described is a fully distributed protocol, which does not rely on any particular physical layer or on any central infrastructure, and this makes it suitable for deployment in ad-hoc networks such as military environments and civil disaster situations.