The Effect of MTU Size on Internet-Controlled Unmanned Ground Vehicles

Abstract

Two methods were tested to reduce latency within an Unmanned Ground Vehicle system controlled by passing messages over the internet. The first finding of this work was to have the system refrain from sending video messages when a communications path did not exist, found to reduce end to end system latency from an average of 409 milliseconds to 185 milliseconds. The second finding was that using an MTU size of 400 for UGV messages provided the highest percentage of acceptable delay.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 22, 2011
Accession Number
AD1059293

Entities

People

  • Greg Czerniak
  • Ty Valascho

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cellular Networks
  • Ground Vehicles
  • Internet
  • Network Protocols
  • Networks
  • Unmanned
  • Unmanned Ground Systems
  • Unmanned Ground Vehicles
  • Unmanned Vehicles
  • Vehicles
  • Video
  • Video Signals
  • Wireless Communications

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Tactical Satellite Communications Systems Engineering.
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy