Directional antennas in FANETs: A performance analysis of routing protocols

Biomo, Jean-Daniel Medjo Me; Kunz, Thomas; St-Hilaire, Marc

doi:10.1109/mownet.2017.8045949

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“…In order to work with a high-enough percentage of sent packets that have used two or more hops to be successfully delivered (a metric dubbed as the Amount of Routing in [12]), we focus on a specific area size and explore how the protocols operate as a function of the number of sectors. More specifically, we base this analysis on the 4898 × 9796 area, with most attention paid to the performance of the 6-beam antennas.…”

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“…Finally, between slot 3 and slot 4, one star node (node 6) is formed. Two links fail to be scheduled at slot 1: link (12,11) and link (8, 3) of flows 7 and 8 respectively. Link (12,11) is not scheduled because node 12 (which would be the transmitter) is already at the receiving end of a scheduled link (link (15, 12) of flow 5), and we know that a node cannot be receiving and transmitting at the same time (half-duplex constraint).…”

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“…Two links fail to be scheduled at slot 1: link (12,11) and link (8, 3) of flows 7 and 8 respectively. Link (12,11) is not scheduled because node 12 (which would be the transmitter) is already at the receiving end of a scheduled link (link (15, 12) of flow 5), and we know that a node cannot be receiving and transmitting at the same time (half-duplex constraint). Similarly, in the case of link (8,3), node 3 that would be We also notice that three of the eight flows do not use their shortest path (3 hops), and use a longer (4 hops) path instead.…”

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“…Note that link (10,15) is not scheduled at slot 2 because of the half-duplex restriction for nodes 10 and 15. Node 15 is already at the transmitting end of links (15,10) and (15,12) and node 10 is already at the receiving end of links (6,10) and (15,10).…”

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“…12:Routing Table of Node 16RoutingTable of Node 16Dest DestSeq# NextH HopCnt B2PH B2NH StarCnt BridCnt BridNumFlows…”

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MBA-DRR: A Delay-Reducing Routing Protocol for Multi-Beam Directional Antennas in Multi-Hop Ad Hoc Networks

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Ad hoc networks are infrastructure-less and self-organizing networks that consist of static or mobile nodes with limited bandwidth, computing ability and energy. These networks are deployed for a wide range of civilian and military applications. Having an efficient and reliable routing protocol for communication between the nodes can be critical. Our goal in this thesis is to exploit Multi-Beam directional Antennas (MBAs) to significantly reduce the end-to-end (E2E) delay in multi-hop ad hoc networks that service multiple traffic flows. We conduct this work in four major steps. First, we explore the benefits of directional antennas, from the standpoint of single-beam ones, for traditional routing protocols. We propose a single-beam directional antenna MAC protocol in the process. Secondly, using Flying Ad hoc Networks (FANETs) as an example, we make the case that MBAs are yet to be exploited for E2E delay reduction. To that end, we propose a multi-beam directional antenna MAC protocol. Third, as a consequence of the case made in the second step, we propose a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) model that exploits MBAs' capabilities for delay minimization.

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