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Web Real-Time Communications-Based Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicle-Borne Internet of Things and Stringent Time Sensitivity: A
Agnieszka Chodorek1, Robert Ryszard Chodorek2
1Department of Applied Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatic Control and Computer Science, Kielce University of Technology, Al. 1000-lecia P.P. 7, 25-314 Kielce, Poland.
Abstract:
The currently observed development of time-sensitive applications also affects wireless communication with the IoT carried by UAVs. Although research on wireless low-latency networks has matured, there are still issues to solve at the transport layer. Since there is a general agreement that classical transport solutions are not able to achieve end-to-end delays in the single-digit millisecond range, in this paper, the use of WebRTC is proposed as a potential solution to this problem. This article examines UAV-borne WebRTC-based IoT in an outdoor environment. The results of field experiments conducted under various network conditions show that, in highly reliable networks, UAV and WebRTC-based IoT achieved stable end-to-end delays well below 10 ms during error-free air-to-ground transmissions, and below 10 ms in the immediate vicinity of the retransmitted packet. The significant advantage of the WebRTC data channel over the classic WebSocket is also demonstrated.
