Intent-Driven QoS-Aware Routing Management for Flying Ad hoc Networks.

Flying Ad hoc Network (FANET) is with limited node energy, time-varying dynamic topology, and unstable wireless links, thus leading to a challenging network management. The network management of the FANET faces frequent network reconfiguration and strict monitoring, which makes the traditional human-involved network management methods unsuitable. Therefore, an autonomous network management method is urgently needed. This paper proposes the intent-driven network management system for FANET, termed as IMF for short. Aiming at the various management intents of FANET, the proposed IMF system explores and exploits intent-driven networking capabilities to improve the network management automation. Through intent translation, policy management, policy verification, and state awareness, the network management intent can be converted into machine-actionable policies at the underlying Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) node, which reduces the complexity of network management in a timely and robust way. At last, we present a use case of Quality of Service (QoS)-aware routing management in the proposed IMF system framework. The refined routing intents and the node state information are stored and transmitted in the re-designed time slot reservation request (TREQ) and topology control (TC) packets. A proof of concept of the implementation platform is built to verify the effective control and management of the presented intent-driven QoS-aware routing management.