Optimizing Data Delivery for Ground Vehicle Teams

The radio-based wide area network (WAN) that forms the command-and-control backbone for deployments of multiple ground vehicles is a classic DIL (disconnected, intermittent, limited) communications infrastructure for bandwidth-intensive services like video streams, situational awareness feeds, and command-and-control messages.

This paper describes an inter-vehicle network architecture that leverages the radio-aware routing features of an existing vehicle Ethernet switch/router to provide mission-optimized, fault-tolerant data delivery while minimizing both network overhead and vehicle SWaP requirements.