Experimental validation of RSS driven UAV mobility behaviors in IEEE 802.11s networks

In this research work, we describe and analyze the transition from simulation to experimental validation of communication-aware mobility behaviors for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Two reference scenarios are simulated and carried out using an experimental UAV testbed. The results are compared to determine the gap between simulation and reference implementation. In this work, we show that the received signal strength (RSS) can be used as a steering metric in communication-aware mobility behaviors. The proposed concept from simulation to outdoor experiments helps to reduce development time and failure risk due to the incremental substitution of simulated components with real implementations.