Team communications among autonomous sensor swarms

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we consider team (swarm) of unmanned vehicles (UVs) equipped with various sensors (videos, chemicals, etc). Those swarms need efficient communication to feed sensed data, communicate data to other swarms, to navigate and, more generally, to carry out complex mission autonomously. We focus on a particular aspect of mission oriented communications, namely, team multicast. In team multicast, the multicast group does not consist of individual members, rather, of teams. In our case, the teams may consist of special UVs that have been established to launch a search and rescue mission. Simulation results illustrate the performance benefits of the team multicast solution as compared with more traditional multicast approaches.

REFERENCES

• 1: Mario Gerla, Kaixin Xu, and Allen Moshfegh "Minuteman: Forward Projection of Unmanned Agents Using the Airborne Internet", IEEE Aerospace Conference 2002, Big Sky, MT, Mar. 2002
• 2: The First IEEE Workshop on Disaster Recovery Networks, DIREN 2002.
• 3: Scalable Solution Networks, QUALNET, <u>http://www.qualnet.com</u>
• 4: M. Gerla, X. Hong, G. Pei, "Landmark Routing for Large Ad Hoc Wireless Networks", Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM 2000, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 2000.
• 5: Guangyu Pei , Mario Gerla , Xiaoyan Hong, LANMAR: landmark routing for large scale wireless ad hoc networks with group mobility, Proceedings of the 1st ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing, November 20, 2000, Boston, Massachusetts
• 6: G. Pei, M. Gerla, and T.-W. Chen, "Fisheye State Routing: A Routing Scheme for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks", Proceedings of ICC 2000, New Orleans, LA, Jun. 2000.
• 7: Yunjung Yi, Xiaoyan Hong and Mario Gerla, "Scalable Team Multicast in Wireless Ad hoc Networks Exploiting Coordinated Motion", NGC 2002
• 8: S.-J. Lee, W. Su, and M. Gerla, "On-Demand Multicast Routing Protocol (ODMRP) for Ad Hoc Networks", Internet Draft, draft-ietf-manet-odmrp-02.txt, Jan. 2000.
• 9: Yunjung Yi, Ken Tang, Mario Gerla, Sung-Ju Lee, Venkatesh Rajendran, and Katia Obraczka, "Achieving Reliable Multicast in Ad Hoc Networks with Congestion Control and Local Recovery", UCLR Report
• 10: Elizabeth M. Royer , Charles E. Perkins, Multicast operation of the ad-hoc on-demand distance vector routing protocol, Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking, p.207-218, August 15-19, 1999, Seattle, Washington, United States [doi>10.1145/313451.313538]
• 11: Xiaoyan Hong , Mario Gerla , Guangyu Pei , Ching-Chuan Chiang, A group mobility model for ad hoc wireless networks, Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international workshop on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems, p.53-60, August 20-20, 1999, Seattle, Washington, United States [doi>10.1145/313237.313248]