Medium Access Control for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Ad-Hoc Networks With Full-Duplex Radios and Multipacket Reception Capability

• Published in: IEEE transactions on vehicular technology 2013-01, Vol.62 (1), p.390-394
• Main Authors: Chua, Mark Yep-Kui, Yu, F. Richard, Li, Jun, Zhou, Yifeng, Lamont, Louise
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Access methods and protocols, osi model; Ad hoc networks; Applied sciences; Business and industry local networks; Channel estimation; Delay; Detection, estimation, filtering, equalization, prediction; Exact sciences and technology; Full-duplex radio; Information, signal and communications theory; Interference; media access control; multipacket reception (MPR); Networks and services in france and abroad; Optimization; quality of service (QoS); Signal and communications theory; Signal to noise ratio; Signal, noise; Systems, networks and services of telecommunications; Telecommunications; Telecommunications and information theory; Teleprocessing networks. Isdn; Throughput; Transmission and modulation (techniques and equipments); unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
• ISSN: 0018-9545; 1939-9359
• DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2012.2211905

Recent advances in interference cancellation and signal-processing techniques can enable full-duplex radios and multipacket reception (MPR), which will have significant impact on medium access control (MAC) schemes. In this paper, we propose a MAC scheme in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) ad-hoc networks with full-duplex radios and MPR. To efficiently handle the highly mobile environment of a UAV ad-hoc network, a token-based technique is used to update information in the network as well. The MAC schemes in the presence of perfect and imperfect channel state information (CSI) are formulated as a combinatorial optimization problem and a discrete stochastic optimization problem, respectively. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed MAC.