An energy-efficient and location-aware Medium Access Control for quality of service enhancement in unmanned aerial vehicular networks

摘要

Networking with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is intricate in terms of mobility management, routing conditions and timing control as high dynamics cause an immense impact on the connectivity and operations. Thus, it is consequential to formalize an efficient solution which can provide sustainable connectivity in drone networks with efficient control as well as provisioning of the high quality of service. To satisfy such requirements, this paper proposes a novel strategy by utilizing the properties of the fire-fly optimization algorithm. The proposed approach forms an efficient timing slot mechanism which results in the formation of an energy-efficient and location-aware Medium Access Control (MAC) mechanism for quality of service enhancement in UAV networks. The simulation results and comparative analysis suggest that the proposed approach is capable of providing congestion-free, collision-free and energy efficient MAC with signaling quality amended up to 59.04% along with 80.1% conservation of energy. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.