A Non-central Multi-Agent Routing Protocol of Self-organized Wireless Network for Missile Swarm Communication

As the fast mobility of position and uncertainty of quantity in the missiles swarm, the flooding routing protocol which is widely used in the communication of self-organized wireless network has unsatisfied communication capability and intolerable energy consumption under the large number of communication nodes with complex topology. To suppress these deficiencies, this paper studied a non-central multiagent routing protocol of self-organized network for missile swarm, which could provide random communication between multiple missiles in cooperative engagement. The proposed protocol regards each node as an agent with the capabilities of autonomous perception, independent decision-making and multihop communication. The agents receive the broadcast information with multihop lists from the neighbour nodes and build the connectivity matrix with the multihop depth. Considering the optimization function with communication load and energy consumption of each node, the agents update the forwarding routing table iteratively under the agents' connectivity matrix and right rotation rule. The mathematical simulation results showed that the proposed multiagent routing protocol could effectively reduce the network load and the energy consumption of each node than the flooding routing protocol.