Cargo-bearing Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have tremendous potential to assist humans in food, medicine, and supply deliveries. For time-critical cargo delivery tasks, UAVs need to be able to navigate their environments and deliver suspended payloads with bounded load displacement. As a constraint balancing task for joint UAV-suspended load system dynamics, this task poses a challenge. This ...

Distributed search structures are useful for parallel databases and in maintaining distributed storage systems. In this paper we discuss some issues in the design and implementation of distributed B-trees, such as methods for low-overhead synchronization of tree restructuring, node mobility and replication strategies. We have implemented a distributed B-tree that replicates the index and also p...

Wheeled mobile robots are widely used in industry, ports, and agriculture because they have the necessary loading capability. High performance path-tracking is very important for the mobile robot to precisely follow the designed cargo-carrying path. However, the mobile robot sometimes strays from the predefined path because of center-ofgravity (COG) shifts, load changes caused by loads, and non...

The performance of low-latency video streaming with multipath routing over wireless mesh networks is studied (WMN). This paper presents a novel multipath routing video delivery scheme (MRVD) in which video takes multipath to reach its destination, thereby increasing the aggregate throughput. Based on proposed multipath routing scheme, a video scheduling algorithm is proposed, which achieves hig...

Research on multi-path routing protocols to provide improved throughput and route resilience as compared with single-path routing has been explored in details in the context of wired networks. However, multi-path routing mechanism has not been explored thoroughly in the domain of ad hoc networks. In this paper, we analyze and compare reactive single-path and multi-path routing with load balance...

We consider the problem of balancing the traffic load ideally over a wireless multihop network. In previous work, a systematic approach to this task was undertaken, starting with an approximate optimisation method that guarantees a provable congestion performance bound, and then designing a distributed implementation by modifying the DSR protocol. In this paper, the performance of the resulting...

In dynamic routing construction of ICN, traditional CCN routing mechanism can improve the diversity and reliability of data forwarding. But it also brings problems in retrieval redundancy, taking some load to the network. SoCCeR strategy uses ant colony algorithm to finish single-path routing of CCN in distribution, while it has defects in ant agency control and convergence feature. Therefore, ...

The focus of this paper is to achieve a dynamic load balancing algorithm with the ability of guaranteeing the end-to-end quality of service (QoS) for a variety of service classes. The proposed algorithm consists of an explicit endpoint admission control (EEAC) mechanism, multiple path algorithm (MPA) as a multipath routing protocol and an adaptive load balancing algorithm. EEAC algorithm is com...