Design and analysis of routing protocols for the internet of drones

• Autor(a) principal: Lailla Milainny Siqueira Bine
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMG
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/68888; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4780-1783
• topic: Internet of drones; Routing protocols; Drones; Computação – Teses; Aeronave não tripulada – Teses; Roteamento (Administração de redes de computadores) – Protocolos - Teses

The Internet of Drones (IoD) is an emerging technology that will enable a new era of drone services and applications. However, many barriers and challenges remain until we can control a complex IoD network. The scientific community is still discussing, studying, and investigating the best way to implement this network to become the IoD viable, reliable, and efficient. Furthermore, the principles that guide terrestrial wireless networks and even traditional Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks do not apply to IoD mainly because it allows distinct drones performing different applications to share the airspace. First, this thesis discusses, explores, and studies the challenges of IoD through Urban Computing. This analysis can bring insights into the design of the IoD airspace organization and communication protocols because they reveal the IoD environment dimension, needs, and challenges. Then, we propose and study a topological architecture of airspace and airways to build a coordinated drone access environment. We discuss the drone delivery application in the context of IoD and present decision guidelines on when to use drone delivery and when to opt for traditional deliveries. Also, we present a method for generating path planning to cover airspace organized in airways. Next, we study the routing protocols for IoD regarding the established topology. We propose a geocast routing protocol for IoD to disseminate alert messages in unpredictable situations that may occur in the network. Furthermore, we propose an IoD protocol using the Software-defined IoD approach to control and allow greater programmability and adaptability of the network. In addition, we explore IoD collaboration with other networks through two hybrid protocols. First, we propose a protocol to join IoD and bus networks. Bus networks feature predictability allowing drones to take advantage of buses to fill gaps in their communication when the network is sparse. Finally, we propose a protocol for a futuristic scenario in which vehicular networks, IoD and Internet of Flying Cars (IoFC) collaborate in specific situations such as the dissemination of emergency messages. The developed solutions have been compared with related works through simulations in a simulator that allows the creation and management of airways. The results are promising and show the potential of path planning methods and communication protocols developed in different scenarios. Finally, we present the next steps to be developed. In summary, this thesis provides procedures and discussions that can guide future development to overcoming barriers related to fundamental problems in IoD, such as communication and mobility.