SMURF: Reliable Multipath Routing in Flying Ad-Hoc Networks

Anay Ajit Deshpande; Federico Chiariotti; Andrea Zanella

doi:10.1109/MedComNet49392.2020.9191526

SMURF: Reliable Multipath Routing in Flying Ad-Hoc Networks

Anay Ajit Deshpande, Federico Chiariotti, Andrea Zanella

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Abstract

In a Flying Ad-Hoc Network, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), (i.e. drones or quadcopters), use wireless communication to exchange data, status updates, and commands between each other and with the control center. However, due to the movement of UAVs, maintaining communication is difficult, particularly when multiple hops are needed to reach the destination. In this work, we propose the Stochastic Multipath UAV Routing for FANETs (SMURF) protocol, which exploits trajectory tracking information from the drones to compute the routes with the highest reliability. SMURF is a centralized protocol, as the control center gathers location updates and sends routing commands following the Software Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm over a separate long-range low bitrate technology such as LoRaWAN. Additionally, SMURF exploits multiple routes, to increase the probability that at least one of the routes is usable. Simulation results show a significant reliability improvement over purely distance-based routing, and that just 3 routes are enough to achieve performance very close to oracle-based routing with perfect information.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2020 Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference, MedComNet 2020
Publisher	IEEE Signal Processing Society
Publication date	Jun 2020
Article number	9191526
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728162485
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MedComNet49392.2020.9191526
Publication status	Published - Jun 2020
Externally published	Yes
Event	2020 Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference, MedComNet 2020 - Arona, Italy Duration: 17 Jun 2020 → 19 Jun 2020

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Conference	2020 Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference, MedComNet 2020
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Arona
Period	17/06/2020 → 19/06/2020

Series	2020 Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference, MedComNet 2020

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 813999. This work was also supported by the US Army Research Office under Grant no. W911NF1910232: “Towards Intelligent Tactical Ad-hoc Networks (TITAN)”.

Funding Information:
This project has received funding from the European Union s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 813999. This work was also supported by the US Army Research Office under Grant no. W911NF1910232: "Towards Intelligent Tactical Ad-hoc Networks (TITAN)".

Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.

Keywords

drone networks
geographic routing
Multipath routing

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Deshpande, AA, Chiariotti, F & Zanella, A 2020, SMURF: Reliable Multipath Routing in Flying Ad-Hoc Networks. in 2020 Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference, MedComNet 2020., 9191526, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2020 Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference, MedComNet 2020, 2020 Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference, MedComNet 2020, Arona, Italy, 17/06/2020. https://doi.org/10.1109/MedComNet49392.2020.9191526

SMURF: Reliable Multipath Routing in Flying Ad-Hoc Networks. / Deshpande, Anay Ajit; Chiariotti, Federico; Zanella, Andrea.
2020 Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference, MedComNet 2020. IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2020. 9191526 (2020 Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference, MedComNet 2020).

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