Research Article
Intelligent Wireless Ad Hoc Routing Protocol and Controller for UAV Networks
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-51204-4_8, author={Abhinandan Ramaprasath and Anand Srinivasan and Chung-Horng Lung and Marc St-Hilaire}, title={Intelligent Wireless Ad Hoc Routing Protocol and Controller for UAV Networks}, proceedings={Ad Hoc Networks. 8th International Conference, ADHOCNETS 2016, Ottawa, Canada, September 26-27, 2016, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={ADHOCNETS}, year={2017}, month={4}, keywords={UAV networks SDN Wireless Ad hoc networks OLSR AODV Routing protocols Performance Simulation}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-51204-4_8} }- Abhinandan Ramaprasath
Anand Srinivasan
Chung-Horng Lung
Marc St-Hilaire
Year: 2017
Intelligent Wireless Ad Hoc Routing Protocol and Controller for UAV Networks
ADHOCNETS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51204-4_8
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a novel UAV to UAV communication approach that is based on the concept of Software Defined Networking (SDN). The proposed approach uses a controller as a central source of information to assign routes that maximize throughput, distribute traffic evenly, reduce network delay and utilize all network elements. Simulation results of the proposed methodology were compared to the performance of two common ad hoc routing protocols, namely AODV and OLSR. Performance analysis shows that the proposed methodology improves throughput by over 300%. Simulation results also show a reduction in network delay for delay sensitive packets by nearly 25% and a 26 times increase in packet delivery ratio for packets with higher priority.