A Fluid Model Study of Multipath Communication in a Hybrid Network for a Moving Convoy

摘要: Mobile communication platforms of ships, aircrafts, ground vehicles, or individual agents of both military and public services often operate in highly dynamic conditions with constantly changing infrastructure and access to communication resources. Efficient techniques for rapid and yet stable communication of such fleets with their control centres and between cooperating vehicles within the fleet is a challenging but important area of study with the potential to facilitate the analysis and design of efficient and robust communication systems. Multi-path extensions of data transmission protocols aim to take advantage of path diversity to achieve efficient bandwidth allocation while maintaining stability. Such multi-path resourcepooling extensions of routing and congestion control intrinsically implement decentralisation with implicit resource sharing. In this paper, we build on the recent theoretical work on fluid model …