Measurement of TCP and UDP performance over UAS relay networks

This paper presents a measurement setup for transport protocol of wireless relay network using a unmanned aircraft (UA). The UA can fly back and forth to ferry data from multiple ground based access points or ground stations (GSs) that are located in the distance without connection to the backbone due to the network disconnection caused by a large-scale disaster. In such disaster area, a demand of communications through the data including moving images, sounds and pieces of text increases. In this paper, we conduct the experimental measurement of the wireless relay network using UA and analyzes its behavior. In this experimental measurement, we evaluate the basic performance of TCP and UDP protocol based on usage scenes. The numerical results of its goodput and delay performance of will be shown in this paper.