Research Area:  Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Abstract:

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used in our modern society and their development is rapidly accelerating. Flying Ad Hoc Networks (FANETs) have opened a new window of opportunity to create new value-added services. However, the characteristics that make FANETs unique, such as node mobility, node distance, energy constraints, etc., imply that several guidelines need to be considered for their successful deployment. Although numerous routing protocols have been proposed for FANETs, due to the wide range of applications in which FANETs can be applied, not all routing protocols can be used. Due to this challenge, after breaking down and classifying the different types of existing routing protocols for FANET, this paper analyzes and compares the performance of several routing protocols (Babel, BATMAN-ADV, and OLSR) in terms of throughput and packet loss in a real deployment composed of several UAV nodes using 2.4 and 5 GHz WiFi networks. The results show that Babel achieves better performance in the studied metrics than OLSR and BATMAN-ADV, while BATMAN-ADV delivers significantly lower performance. This experimental study confirms the importance of choosing the proper routing protocol for FANETs and their performance evaluation, something that will be extremely important in a few years when this type of network will be common in our day-to-day life.

Keywords:  
Ad Hoc Networks
Experimental Study
Flying Ad Hoc Networks
Practical Case
Routing Protocols
Testbed
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Uav
Wifi

Author(s) Name:  Antonio Guillen-Perez ,Ana-Maria Montoya,Juan-Carlos Sanchez-Aarnoutse and Maria-Dolores Cano

Publisher name:  MDPI

DOI:  10.3390/app11104363

Volume Information:  Volume 11 Issue 10

Paper Link:   https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/10/4363