Enhancing the Reliability of Swarming Ad-hoc Networks
摘要
We investigate the evolution of the reliability of a mobile communication network through its capacity to avoid and withstand faults (called robustness) and to maintain proper functioning if faults occur nevertheless (called resilience). Our case study focuses on a swarm of nanosatellites orbiting the Moon and operating as a distributed space interferometer. The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of graph division techniques on the robustness and resilience of the system, simultaneously. A high reliability level is key to guaranteeing proper quality of service by recovering from impairments while preserving the primary function or mission of the mobile network. By analyzing the effects of exploration and random selection algorithms on the network reliability, our results show that fair graph division significantly improves robustness metrics such as routing cost and network efficiency, while introducing a measurable tradeoff with specific resilience metrics such as path redundancy and disparity. In addition, our analysis highlights the superior performance of sequential exploration algorithms, such as MIRW, in optimizing robustness while preserving a decent level of resilience.