Research Article
The SDN-Governed Ad Hoc Swarm for Mobile Surveillance of Meteorological Facilities
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-77569-8_5, author={Xi Chen and Tao Wu and Ying Tan}, title={The SDN-Governed Ad Hoc Swarm for Mobile Surveillance of Meteorological Facilities}, proceedings={Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness in Heterogeneous Systems. 16th EAI International Conference, QShine 2020, Virtual Event, November 29--30, 2020, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={QSHINE}, year={2021}, month={6}, keywords={SDN (Software-Defined Networking) Ad Hoc Image recognition Mobile surveillance}, doi={10.1007/978-3-030-77569-8_5} }- Xi Chen
Tao Wu
Ying Tan
Year: 2021
The SDN-Governed Ad Hoc Swarm for Mobile Surveillance of Meteorological Facilities
QSHINE
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-77569-8_5
Abstract
Accurate meteorological observation relies heavily on the proper and precise working of meteorological facilities. Nevertheless, a big portion of meteorological facilities are deployed in outdoor environments hardly within the reach of convenient monitoring and reliable networking infrastructure, hence the surveillance challenge. Given such an infrastructure-less/-poor environment (deserts, oceans, etc.) for meteorological facilities, Ad Hoc nodes are possible candidates for mobile surveillance. However, pure Ad Hoc networking without a logical centric node can barely provide consistent collaboration between mobile nodes during monitoring. This paper proposes a tunnelled overlay structure that bridges the Ad Hoc protocol stack and the SDN (Software-Defined Networking) protocol stack based on network virtualization techniques, so that robust distributed Ad Hoc mobile nodes are grouped in the form of an SDN-governed swarm to conduct the mobile surveillance task with joint efforts under the consistent control of the centric SDN controller. In addition, mobile nodes are equipped with TensorFlow-based image recognition feature, capable of transmitting the recognized results of harmful creatures that might cause facility damages, to suggest proper protection measures, control/avoid facility loss, etc. Experiments on the prototype SDN-governed Ad Hoc swarm are carried out in a real-world university campus meteorological station to demonstrate its feasibility and functionalities.
