Achieving High Throughput Ground-to-UAV Transport via Parallel Links

Authors :: Lin, Chit-Kwan
Kung, H. T.
Lin, Tsung-Han
Tarsa, Stephen John
Vlah, Dario
Source :: Quick submit: 2014-01-03T09:24:25-05:00, Lin, Chit-Kwan, H. T. Kung, Tsung-Han Lin, Stephen J. Tarsa, and Dario Vlah. 2011. “Achieving High Throughput Ground-to-UAV Transport via Parallel Links.” In Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), July 31 - Aug. 4 2011, Maui, HI, 1-7. doi:10.1109/icccn.2011.6006004.
Publication Year :: 2011
Publisher :: IEEE, 2011.
Abstract: Wireless data transfer under high mobility, as found in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications, is a challenge due to varying channel quality and extended link outages. We present FlowCode, an easily deployable link-layer solution utilizing multiple transmitters and receivers for the purpose of supporting existing transport protocols such as TCP in these scenarios. By using multiple transmitters and receivers and by exploiting the resulting antenna beam diversity and parallel transmission effects, FlowCode increases throughput and reception range. In emulation, we show that TCP over FlowCode gives greater goodput over a larger portion of the flight path, compared to an enhanced TCP protocol using the standard 802.11 MAC. In the process, we make a strong case for using trace-modulated emulation when developing distributed protocols for complex wireless environments.<br />Engineering and Applied Sciences

Language :: English
ISBN :: 978-1-4577-0638-7
1-4577-0638-5
ISSN :: 10952055
ISBNs :: 9781457706387 and 1457706385
Database :: Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH)
Journal :: Quick submit: 2014-01-03T09:24:25-05:00, Lin, Chit-Kwan, H. T. Kung, Tsung-Han Lin, Stephen J. Tarsa, and Dario Vlah. 2011. “Achieving High Throughput Ground-to-UAV Transport via Parallel Links.” In Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), July 31 - Aug. 4 2011, Maui, HI, 1-7. doi:10.1109/icccn.2011.6006004.
Publication Type :: Conference
Accession number :: edshld.1.33725630
Document Type :: Conference Paper
Full Text :: https://doi.org/10.1109/icccn.2011.6006004