Modeling the Instantaneous Saturation Throughput of UAV Swarm Networks

Jie Wang, Lei Lei*, Shengsuo Cai, Mengfan Yan

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarm has been widely applied in border surveillance, public safety, transportation management and so on. Affected by the complex mission environment and rapidly changing network topology, the network performance decreases drastically especially when an unsuitable contention window size is selected in traditional media access control (MAC) protocol. In this work, we first introduce a node-counts-based UAV swarm MAC (NCU_MAC) protocol to dynamically adjust the contention window size according to the number of neighbor nodes. Next, a four- dimensional Markov Chain model is developed to model the media access process and evaluate the performance of NCU_MAC. The expressions of the collision, transmission probability and saturation throughput are obtained theoretically. Simulation results are presented to validate the effectiveness of the proposed model and show the saturation throughput of the swarm network in the process of cooperative movement.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications - 16th International Conference, WASA 2021, Proceedings
EditorsZhe Liu, Fan Wu, Sajal K. Das
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages587-599
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783030861292
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event16th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2021 - Nanjing, China
Duration: 25 Jun 202127 Jun 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12938 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityNanjing
Period25/06/2127/06/21

Keywords

  • MAC protocol
  • Markov chain model
  • Saturation throughput
  • UAV swarm network

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