An Integrated Routing and Medium Access Control Framework for Surveillance Networks of Mobile Devices

In this paper we present an integrated solution that combines routing, clustering and medium access control operations while basing them on a common meshed tree algorithm. The aim is to achieve an efficient airborne surveillance network of unmanned aerial vehicles, wherein any loss of captured data is kept to the minimum while maintaining low latency in packet and data delivery. Surveillance networks of varying sizes were evaluated with varying numbers of senders, while the physical layer was maintained invariant.