TY - GEN
T1 - A Virtual-Potential-Field-Based Cooperative Opportunistic Routing Protocol for UAV Swarms
AU - Yan, Mengfan
AU - Lei, Lei
AU - Cai, Shengsuo
AU - Wang, Jie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Due to highly dynamic links and unstable wireless channels, designing reliable and efficient routing protocols for UAV swarm networks is challenging. In this paper, a modified virtual potential field method is developed to coordinate the UAV swarm and provide local topology information. Both coordination and mutual influence between UAVs are taken into consideration for virtual force calculation. Next, a new Virtual-Potential-Field-based Cooperative Opportunistic Routing (VPFCOR) protocol is proposed. VPFCOR comprehensively combines three main metrics for candidate ordering, i.e., forwarding distance, virtual force and remaining energy. With these metrics, VPFCOR can effectively adapt to different tasks, take smaller routing overhead and meet the real-time requirement. Simulation results are presented to obtain the optimal parameter settings and validate the effectiveness of our proposed protocol.
AB - Due to highly dynamic links and unstable wireless channels, designing reliable and efficient routing protocols for UAV swarm networks is challenging. In this paper, a modified virtual potential field method is developed to coordinate the UAV swarm and provide local topology information. Both coordination and mutual influence between UAVs are taken into consideration for virtual force calculation. Next, a new Virtual-Potential-Field-based Cooperative Opportunistic Routing (VPFCOR) protocol is proposed. VPFCOR comprehensively combines three main metrics for candidate ordering, i.e., forwarding distance, virtual force and remaining energy. With these metrics, VPFCOR can effectively adapt to different tasks, take smaller routing overhead and meet the real-time requirement. Simulation results are presented to obtain the optimal parameter settings and validate the effectiveness of our proposed protocol.
KW - Opportunistic routing
KW - UAV swarms
KW - Virtual potential field
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85115711118
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-86137-7_45
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-86137-7_45
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85115711118
SN - 9783030861360
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 418
EP - 428
BT - Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications - 16th International Conference, WASA 2021, Proceedings
A2 - Liu, Zhe
A2 - Wu, Fan
A2 - Das, Sajal K.
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 16th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2021
Y2 - 25 June 2021 through 27 June 2021
ER -