Study on the routing algorithm of airport navigation lighting system based on mobile wireless ad hoc network

Abstract

Currently, the performance of the conventional airport navigation lighting system can’t meet the functional requirements of an airport under combat readiness or emergency state. A new type of airport navigation lighting system in mobile wireless ad hoc network is proposed in this paper. The system consists of a monitoring center, a coordinator and a number of terminal nodes. It can be flexibly transferred, concealed in time, remotely controlled, quickly started and networked on demand. According to the functions and the distribution characteristics of the navigation luminaries in the airfields, the terminal nodes are grouped according to regions. The cluster heads are selected in each group according to the energy of nodes and the distribution distance between nodes. By comparing the advantages and the disadvantages between the Cluster-Tree protocol and the AODVjr protocol, an optimized routing algorithm is proposed. In order to reduce the number of hops of RREQ broadcast packets and prevent the invalid RREQ flooding, this algorithm adopts the neighbor table algorithm of ZigBee protocol and regional grouping method. The results of the simulations and the test of small-scale hardware show that this optimization algorithm can effectively reduce the number of routing hops, shorten the transmission delay, reduce the number of dead nodes and improve the success rate of data transmission.