Performance Analysis of a Novel UAV Networks via Named Data Networking

Abstract

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are an emerging technology that can be utilized in military, public and civil applications. Multi-UAV systems can collaboratively complete missions more efficiently and economically as compared to single UAV systems. However, UAV networks in multi-UAV systems are still based on TCP/IP, which is not efficient and scalable to provide stable and reliable communication. Therefore, novel UAV networks via Named Data Networking (NDN) is proposed in this paper. Meanwhile, the simulation conducted on ndnSIM tests the transmission interference time and the maximum end-to-end transmission delay of this novel UAV networks, which are vital to the whole system. The result indicates the novel UAV networks via NDN satisfies the current network requirements, which has advantages such as good network adaptability, low latency, high security, etc.