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Authors:
Yamin Al-Mousa
William Huba
Nirmala Shenoy
Keywords: Airborne Backbone Network, Cluster formation, TDMA, Routing, MAC, Directional Antennas
Abstract:
Airborne backbone networks are useful in tactical applications to interconnect tactical sub-networks. Major challenge in such networks which normally comprise large numbers of highly mobile nodes lie in the design of medium access control (MAC) and routing protocols that can accommodate scalability and the highly dynamic topology. In this work, we propose an integrated solution of time division multiple access (TDMA) based MAC and routing protocols, both of which use the attributes of a clustering scheme, where clustering was adopted to address scalability. While the clustering scheme also establishes proactive routes between cluster clients and cluster head, the reactive routing protocol uses both the cluster attributes and the proactive routes within the cluster to address the challenges of high dynamics in the airborne network. The MAC is equipped with TDMA scheduler for operation with directional antennas used in the airborne nodes to provide spatial reuse. We assess the performance of the proposed integrated solution in terms of success rate and latency in packet delivery.
Pages: 234 to 239
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011
Publication date: May 22, 2011
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4006
ISBN: 978-1-61208-133-5
Location: Venice/Mestre, Italy
Dates: from May 22, 2011 to May 27, 2011