Multihop Routing of Telemetry Data in Drone Swarms
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Pospischil, Alexis
Rohrer, Justin P.
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2017
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In 2015, a group of Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) professors and students set the record for largest fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm flown at one time. The swarm had 50 vehicles flying simultaneously and successfully demonstrated distributed decision-making with all processing occurring on swarm vehicles rather than a centralized control station. Much of the decision-making is based on telemetry data that is continuously streamed from all the nodes. At that time all telemetry data was broadcast in a single-hop radio environment using 802.11n in infrastructure mode. In the future, drone swarm distribution and mobility patterns will necessitate multi-hop communications for this telemetry data. This paper models the network currently used by the NPS drone swarm as well as potential future topologies and evaluates candidate multihop routing protocols for this application.
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Proceedings of the International Telemetering Conference (ITC)
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Computer Science (CS)
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Multihop Routing of Telemetry Data in Drone Swarms. Alexis Pospischil, Justin P. Rohrer, In Proceedings of the International Telemetering Conference (ITC), October, 2017, pp. 1–10.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.