An Intelligent Data Routing Scheme for Multi-UAV Avionics System Based on Integrated Communication Effectiveness

The rapid development of information technology promotes the transformation and development of future air combat,frommechanization to informatization,intelligence,and multiplatform integration.For the multiplatform avionics system in the unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)-based network,we aim to address the data routing and sharing issues and propose an integrated communication effectiveness metric.The proposed integrated communication effectiveness is a hierarchical metric consisting of link effectiveness,node effectiveness,and data effectiveness.The link quality,link stability,node honesty,node ability,and data value are concurrently taken into account.We give the normal mathematical expression for the integrated communication effectiveness.We propose a hop-by-hop routing scheme based on a Q-learning algorithm considering the proposed effectiveness metric.Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme is able to find the most efficient routing in the UAV network.