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Monitoring an aquatic sensing environment with multi-swarms of drones requires a reliable communication between the drones for both navigation and data gathering tasks. This work proposes mechanisms for cluster formation in multi-swarms of drones, allowing the aquatic drones to select, in a distributed way, the gateways of each cluster that will be responsible for forwarding collected data towards the gateway on land. Two gateway election methods were designed and implemented, one dealing with the energy of aquatic drones, and the other considering different metrics such as link quality, centrality and energy. The proposed methods were evaluated across several cases and scenarios, where clusters changed in a dynamic way due to mobility and energy constraints. The obtained results show that the election of gateways with a method based on several metrics, together with an appropriate control strategy, provides a better outcome of the network behaviour throughout the aquatic monitoring tasks
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Keywords
Measurement Voting Logic gates Sensors Task analysis Monitoring Drones
Citation
J. Patricio, M. Luís and S. Sargento. - Passive Gateway Election Mechanisms for Swarms of Drones in Aquatic Sensing Environments, 2020 27th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), Bali, Indonesia, 2020, pp. 1-6
Publisher
IEEE