Team 10

Reliable wireless ad-hoc networks are the key to large scale adoption of autonomous systems. As self-driving vehicles and autonomous robots are edging into the commercial sector, wireless ad-hoc networks have become topic of high interest within academia. Wireless ad-hoc networks (WANET) allow mobile devices to communicate with each other, affording common requirements like collision avoidance and distributed data acquisition. The key features of these non-trivial network designs are decentralization and forward routing. Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks (MWSN), will be the focus of this project [1]. A detailed analysis via ns-3 simulation will be carried out, providing insight into the MWSN design considerations.

The report will specify how MWSNs are implemented, optimized, and determine their limitations. The scope will be limited to industrial MWSN data acquisition applications. The theme of the simulations will be data forwarding of mobile sensing robots within a contained facility. The following parameters will be varied during simulation trials: node number, facility size, and node velocities.