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Monitoring routing status of UAV networks with NB-IoT

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UAV networks are difficult to monitor and many new routing protocols are difficult to assess on UAV networks. In this paper, we propose NBMon, an NB-IoT-based monitoring system for UAV networks, which can identify routing abnormalities and upload routing tables from the host device to a control station through the NB-IoT network. At the same time, the control station can send commands to the monitored devices to change routes. NBMon has the benefits of NB-IoT including low energy consumption, low cost, and non-interference to existing Wi-Fi channels. It also addresses the challenge of no global IP address of the existing NB-IoT infrastructure, where both the NB-IoT modules and the control station are behind NAT and do not have global IP addresses. This is done by a NAT traversal subsystem on top of NB-IoT, which has unique operation requirements and existing traversal systems do not work. We implement NBMon with commercial-off-the-shelf devices and evaluate it in real networks.

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The software and data are available upon request from the corresponding author (X. Zhu).

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61972199, 61931011), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (NP2022415), and the open research fund for a graduate student in the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (xcxjh20221610).

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    Ji’ao Tang, Xiaojun Zhu & Lu Lin

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    Xiaojun Zhu

  3. College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China

    Chao Dong & Lei Zhang

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JT contributed to writing—original draft, methodology, software, and investigation. XZ contributed to conceptualization, methodology, writing—review and editing, and supervision. LL contributed to software and investigation. CD contributed to conceptualization and methodology. LZ contributed to conceptualization and methodology. All authors reviewed the manuscript.

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Tang, J., Zhu, X., Lin, L. et al. Monitoring routing status of UAV networks with NB-IoT. J Supercomput 79, 19064–19094 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-023-05411-z

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