Experiment and Field Demonstration of a 802.11-based Ground-UAV Mobile Ad-Hoc Network

Abstract

This paper describes a field demonstration and presents the network performance of an 802.11 ground-UAV network composed of 11 ground stations, a mobile vehicle and two fixed wing UAVs, connected by two routing gateways to a legacy wired network. The network effects demonstrated include mobility, network partitions, network merges and gateway failovers. The paper presents experimental results for recorded data traffic and for the state of the routing protocols, with the mobile nodes participating as sources of data traffic.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA521294

Entities

People

  • Andrés Ortíz
  • Claudiu Danilov
  • Daniel Uhlig
  • Jae H. Kim
  • Jeff Weston
  • Joseph Macker
  • Natasha Neogi
  • Thomas Goff
  • Thomas R. Henderson

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ad Hoc Networks
  • Aircrafts
  • Cameras
  • Climate Change
  • Mesh Networks
  • Military Aircraft
  • Military Research
  • Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  • Network Protocols
  • Network Topology
  • Photography
  • Routing Protocols
  • Standards
  • Transport Protocols
  • Video
  • Video Cameras
  • Voice Communications

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Computer Networking