TY - GEN
T1 - A Multi-Channel Load Awareness Based MAC Protocol for Flying AD Hoc Networks
AU - Zheng, Bo
AU - Li, Yong
AU - Cheng, Wei
AU - Zhao, Wei
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/10
Y1 - 2019/10
N2 - Flying Ad hoc Network (FANET) is a promising and special mobile Ad hoc network, connecting large number of flying Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) on battlefield through wireless links. Designing a low delay, large capacity, high flexibility, strong scalability, and multi-priority traffic differentiated Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is a great challenge in the researches and applications of FANETs. In order to overcome the disadvantages in IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) and Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) protocols, we present a novel multi-channel load awareness based MAC protocol for FANETs in this paper. We intensively describe the multi-priority queueing and scheduling mechanism, and the multi-channel load based backoff mechanism involved in the protocol. We further model the backoff mechanism by a Markov chain model. Simulation results show that the protocol can differentiate services for different priorities in FANETs according to the real-time channel state, provide effective QoS guarantee for transmissions of various information, and utilize the network bandwidth resources efficiently.
AB - Flying Ad hoc Network (FANET) is a promising and special mobile Ad hoc network, connecting large number of flying Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) on battlefield through wireless links. Designing a low delay, large capacity, high flexibility, strong scalability, and multi-priority traffic differentiated Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is a great challenge in the researches and applications of FANETs. In order to overcome the disadvantages in IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) and Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) protocols, we present a novel multi-channel load awareness based MAC protocol for FANETs in this paper. We intensively describe the multi-priority queueing and scheduling mechanism, and the multi-channel load based backoff mechanism involved in the protocol. We further model the backoff mechanism by a Markov chain model. Simulation results show that the protocol can differentiate services for different priorities in FANETs according to the real-time channel state, provide effective QoS guarantee for transmissions of various information, and utilize the network bandwidth resources efficiently.
KW - backoff
KW - flying ad hoc network
KW - load awareness
KW - medium access control protocol
KW - multi-channel
KW - queueing
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85078115311
U2 - 10.1109/ICCT46805.2019.8947041
DO - 10.1109/ICCT46805.2019.8947041
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:85078115311
T3 - International Conference on Communication Technology Proceedings, ICCT
SP - 379
EP - 384
BT - 2019 IEEE 19th International Conference on Communication Technology, ICCT 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 19th IEEE International Conference on Communication Technology, ICCT 2019
Y2 - 16 October 2019 through 19 October 2019
ER -