Title
Intelligent Hello Dissemination Model for FANET Routing Protocols
Date Issued
2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Ayub M.S.
Adasme P.
Melgarejo D.C.
Rosa R.L.
Federal University of Lavras
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
The routing mechanisms in flying ad-hoc networks (FANETs) using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been a challenging issue for many reasons, such as its high speed and different directions of use. In FANETs, the routing protocols send hello messages periodically for the maintenance of routes. However, the hello messages that are sent in the network increase the bandwidth wastage on some occasions and the excessive number of hello messages can also cause the problem of energy loss. Scarce works deal with the problem of excessive hello messages in dynamic UAVs scenarios, and treat several other problems, such as bandwidth and energy wastage simultaneously. Generally, the existing solutions configure the hello interval to an excessive long or short time period originating delay in neighbors discovery. Thus, a self-acting approach is necessary for calculating the exact number of hello messages with the aim to reduce the bandwidth wastage of the network and the energy loss; this approach needs to be low complex in terms of computational resource consumption. In order to solve this problem, an intelligent Hello dissemination model, AI-Hello, based on reinforcement learning algorithms, that adapts the hello message interval scheme is proposed to produce a dense reward structure, and facilitating the network learning. Experimental results, considering FANET dynamic scenarios of high speed range with 40 UAVs, show that the proposed method implemented in two widely adopted routing protocols (AODV and OLSR) saved 30.86% and 27.57% of the energy consumption in comparison to the original AODV and OLSR protocols, respectively. Furthermore, our proposal reached better network performance results in relation to the state-of-the-art methods that are implemented in the same protocols, considering parameters, such as routing overhead, packet delivery ratio, throughput and delay.
Start page
46513
End page
46525
Volume
10
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Telecomunicaciones Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85129643267
Source
IEEE Access
ISSN of the container
21693536
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported in part by the Vicerrectoría de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación, and Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad de Santiago de Chile; and in part by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).
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