Improving Reliability of Real-Time Remote Vehicle Control through Duplicating Control Packets

Woonghee Lee, Joon Yeop Lee, Hwangnam Kim

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    Abstract

    Over the past decade, techniques for remote control vehicles (RCVs) have progressed a lot, and RCVs are receiving huge attention in various fields. Since RCVs, such as drones, have high mobility, it is important for operators to control RCVs reliably. Thus, to keep monitoring and controlling RCVs, operators continuously exchange control packets with RCVs by wireless. However, control packets can be delayed or lost due to any communication or network problems, which may cause collisions or crashes. To overcome this limitation, in this paper, we propose DupCon, a new control packet transmission scheme. Considering characteristics of packets, DupCon duplicates only control packets, not data packets, and transmits the originals and their duplicates through different paths, respectively. We designed and implemented DupCon on real devices. Moreover, we conduct an analysis on DupCon to demonstrate the validity of DupCon theoretically. Furthermore, we conducted various experiments, and the results show that DupCon improves reliability and stability of real-time remote vehicle control.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication2018 14th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, WiMob 2018
    PublisherIEEE Computer Society
    ISBN (Electronic)9781538668764
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2018 Dec 26
    Event14th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, WiMob 2018 - Limassol, Cyprus
    Duration: 2018 Oct 152018 Oct 17

    Publication series

    NameInternational Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications
    Volume2018-October
    ISSN (Print)2161-9646
    ISSN (Electronic)2161-9654

    Other

    Other14th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, WiMob 2018
    Country/TerritoryCyprus
    CityLimassol
    Period18/10/1518/10/17

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    This research was supported in part by Unmanned Vehicles Advanced Core Technology Research and Develop- ment Program through the Unmanned Vehicle Advanced Research Center(UVARC) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, the Republic of Korea (NRF-2016M1B3A1A01937599), and in part by the Brain Korea 21 Plus Project in 2018.

    Publisher Copyright:
    © 2018 IEEE.

    Keywords

    • Control packet
    • Drone
    • Multipath TCP
    • Remote Control Vehicle
    • Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Computer Networks and Communications
    • Hardware and Architecture
    • Software

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