Enabling Real-time Communications and Services in Heterogeneous Networks of Drones and Vehicles
Milena Radenkovic, Vu San Ha Huynh, Robert John, Pietro Manzoni · 2019
This paper describes the deployment of the Mobile Opportunistic Disconnection-Tolerant Networks and Systems platform in heterogeneous real-world scenarios. Our aim is to prototype and test fully-distributed multi-layer complex DTN forwarding and processing algorithms in different real-time dynamic topologies with varying mobility, network resources and data workload (publish-subscribe) patterns. In this work, we describe two different real-world contexts of mobile heterogeneous sensing and query in disconnection-prone environments: 1) networked drones and vehicles for agricultural monitoring applications and 2) vehicles and drone communications for smart city applications in urban environments. We discuss the performance characteristics of different mobile disconnection prone communication protocols and dynamic architectures across a range of criteria.