Flying Ad-hoc Networks (FANETs) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are widely utilized in various rescues, disaster management and military operations nowadays. The limited battery power and high mobility of UAVs create problems like small flight duration and unproductive routing. In this paper, these problems will be reduced by using efficient hybrid K-Means-Fruit Fly Optimization Clustering Algorithm (KFFOCA). The performance and efficiency of K-Means clustering is improved by utilizing the Fruit Fly Optimization Algorithm (FFOA) and the results are analyzed against other optimization techniques like CLPSO, CACONET, GWOCNET and ECRNET on the basis of several performance parameters. The simulation results show that the KFFOCA has obtained better performance than CLPSO, CACONET, GWOCNET and ECRNET based on Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR), throughput, cluster building time, cluster head lifetime, number of clusters, end-to-end delay and consumed energy.
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