With the growing utilization of intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) clusters in both military and civilian domains, the routing protocol of flying ad-hoc networks (FANETs) has promised a crucial role in facilitating cluster communication. However, the highly dynamic nature of the network topology, owing to the rapid movement and changing direction of aircraft nodes, as well as frequent accesses and exits from the network, has resulted in an increased interruption rate of FANETs links. While traditional protocols can satisfy basic network service quality (QoS) requirements in mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) with relatively fixed topology changes, they may fail to achieve optimal routes and consequently restrict information dissemination in FANETs with topology changes, which ultimately leads to elevated packet loss and delay. This paper undertakes an in-depth investigation of the challenges faced by current routing protocols in high dynamic topology scenarios, such as delay and packet loss. It proposes a Q-learning empowered highly dynamic, and latency-aware routing algorithm for flying ad-hoc networks (QEHLR). Traditional routing algorithms are unable to effectively route packets in highly dynamic FANETs; hence, this paper employs a Q-learning method to learn the link status in the network and effectively select routes through Q-values to avoid connection loss. Additionally, the remaining time of the link or path lifespan is incorporated into the routing protocol to construct the routing table. QEHLR can delete predicted failed links based on network status, thereby reducing packet loss caused by failed route selection. Simulations show that the enhanced algorithm significantly improves the packet transmission rate, which addresses the challenge of routing protocols’ inability to adapt to various mobility scenarios in FANETs with dynamic topology by introducing a calculation factor based on the QEHLR protocol. The experimental results indicate that the improved routing algorithm achieves superior network performance.


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    Title :

    QEHLR: A Q-Learning Empowered Highly Dynamic and Latency-Aware Routing Algorithm for Flying Ad-Hoc Networks


    Contributors:
    Qiubei Xue (author) / Yang Yang (author) / Jie Yang (author) / Xiaodong Tan (author) / Jie Sun (author) / Gun Li (author) / Yong Chen (author)


    Publication date :

    2023




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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