The Design and Validation of ICN-Enabled Hybrid Unmanned Aerial System

This work presents a measurement study that evaluates a novel Information Centric Networking (ICN)-enabled Hybrid Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) System called IH-UAS. IH-UAS leverages ICN along with an innovative system model integrating broker-based publish-subscribe message dissemination with a dec...

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Published inMILCOM 2021 - 2021 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM) pp. 169 - 174
Main Authors Kaur, Manveen, Amin, Rahul, Martin, Jim
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 29.11.2021
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Information-centric networking
Military communication
Publish-subscribe
Reliability theory
Simulation
Unicast
Visual analytics
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Summary:This work presents a measurement study that evaluates a novel Information Centric Networking (ICN)-enabled Hybrid Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) System called IH-UAS. IH-UAS leverages ICN along with an innovative system model integrating broker-based publish-subscribe message dissemination with a decentralized architecture to form an ad hoc (infrastructure-less) UAS to carry out military missions. The overarching research goal that drives this study is to design a system that pushes decision-making to the UAV swarm on the battlefield such that mission tasks are completed more reliably and in less time than traditional centralized UAV-based missions. We use theoretical and measurement-based analysis to validate the system. Through experiments conducted using a simplified variant of a Coordinated Search and Tracking (CSAT) application in IH-UAS, we demonstrate that IH-UAS performs better than the same application operating in a traditional centralized solution. We also show that the broker placement and the number of brokers are critical to application performance.
ISSN:2155-7586
DOI:10.1109/MILCOM52596.2021.9653062