2026-09-19T09:49:04Zhttps://dspace.mit.edu/server/oai/requestoai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/1128932026-06-06T00:56:11Zcom_1721.1_7582com_1721.1_7581col_1721.1_131023
Lizhong Zheng and Hammad Iqbal.
Anderson, DeJuan M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2017-12-20T18:16:21Z
2017-12-20T18:16:21Z
2017
2017
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112893
1015183650
Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2017.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-96).
Software Defined Networking (SDN) is rapidly gaining acceptance and use in terrestrial networks but little research has been done to apply it to aerial networks. This paper details an investigation on seven open-source controllers using a specific set of criteria based on the characteristics of both aerial and terrestrial networks. It was determined that Open Network Operating System (ONOS) and OpenDaylight (ODL) are the two best foundations for large or complex use cases. It was further discovered that ODL with default parameters can generate extreme amounts of traffic during controller failure and recovery and reacts more slowly than ONOS under the same conditions. This paper also documents a new algorithm created by the author for use in aerial networks that takes advantage of their small size to leverage a highly parallelizable problem representation and solution. This algorithm solves the problem of deciding which directional antennas to align to form connections and efficiently processes frequent updates while generating an exact solution for the optimal path.
by DeJuan M. Anderson.
M.Eng.
111 pages
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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