Connectivity of Autonomous Agents Using Ad-Hoc Mobile Router Networks

Mathews, Emi; Mathew, Ciby

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-27299-8_24

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“…Finally, Section 7 summarizes the main results of this work and provides an outlook on possible future research. This paper is partly an extension of the contribution published in the proceedings of NetCom 2012 [16]. However, in this paper one of the algorithms for creating AMRoNet and its experimental evaluation are completely new with respect to [16].…”

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Deployment of Mobile Routers Ensuring Coverage and Connectivity

Mathews

Mathew

2012

IJCNC

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Maintaining connectivity among a group of autonomous agents exploring an area is very important, as it promotes cooperation between the agents and also helps message exchanges which are very critical for their mission. Creating an underlying Ad-hoc Mobile Router Network (AMRoNet) using simple robotic routers is an approach that facilitates communication between the agents without restricting their movements. We address the following question in our paper: How to create an AMRoNet with local information and with minimum number of routers? We propose two new localized and distributed algorithms 1) agent-assisted router deployment and 2) a self-spreading for creating AMRoNet. The algorithms use a greedy deployment strategy for deploying routers effectively into the area maximizing coverage and a triangular deployment strategy to connect different connected component of routers from different base stations. Empirical analysis shows that the proposed algorithms are the two best localized approaches to create AMRoNets.

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confidence: 96%