A Dual-Cluster-Head Based Medium Access Control for Large-Scale UAV Ad-Hoc Networks

作     者：Zhao Xinru Wei Zhiqing Zou Yingying Ma Hao Cui Yanpeng Feng Zhiyong Zhao Xinru;Wei Zhiqing;Zou Yingying;Ma Hao;Cui Yanpeng;Feng Zhiyong

作者机构：Key Laboratory of Universal Wireless CommunicationsMinistry of EducationSchool of Information and Communication EngineeringBeijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsBeijing100876China 

出 版 物：《China Communications》 (中国通信（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2024年第21卷第5期

页      面：123-136页

核心收录：

学科分类：08[工学] 082503[工学-航空宇航制造工程] 0835[工学-软件工程] 0802[工学-机械工程] 0825[工学-航空宇航科学与技术] 080201[工学-机械制造及其自动化] 

基　　金：supported in part by the Beijing Natural Science Foundation under Grant L192031 the National Key Research and Development Program under Grant 2020YFA0711303 

主　　题：dual cluster head medium access control UAV swarm 

摘      要：Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV)ad hoc network has achieved significant growth for its flexibility,extensibility,and high deployability in recent *** application of clustering scheme for UAV ad hoc network is imperative to enhance the performance of throughput and energy *** conventional clustering scheme,a single cluster head(CH)is always assigned in each ***,this method has some weaknesses such as overload and premature death of CH when the number of UAVs *** order to solve this problem,we propose a dual-cluster-head based medium access control(DCHMAC)scheme for large-scale UAV *** DCHMAC,two CHs are elected to manage resource allocation and data forwarding ***,two CHs work on different *** of CH is used for intra-cluster communication and the other one is for inter-cluster communication.A Markov chain model is developed to analyse the throughput of the *** result shows that compared with FM-MAC(flying ad hoc networks multi-channel MAC,FM-MAC),DCHMAC improves the throughput by approximately 20%~50%and prolongs the network lifetime by approximately 40%.