Research on novel fountain code for UAV formation flight control in UV communication

Abstract

Research of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) formation is a hot spot in the field of UAV applications. Based on the fountain code, an encoding communication scheme using unequal level coding Lu by Transform (ULC-LT) code and stepwise unequal error protection Lu by Transform (SUEP-LT) code are proposed for the UAV formation communication. Simulation results reveal that the proposed coding scheme can reduce the decoding bit error rate and provide strong unequal error protection property across sources.