Exploiting Conventional MANET Routing in UAV’s Based Environment

Abstract

Nowadays, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), have indeed revolutionized various industries and opened up new possibilities. Additionally, a Flying Ad hoc Network (FANET), a group of UAVs can perform specific functions like delivering goods, assisting people after a disaster, monitoring the weather and environment, among others. FANET is another kind of ad-hoc mobile network. It is capable of connecting with its environment and other nodes to obtain critical information. It is particularly difficult to route across FANETs because of how mobility they are and how fast they may change layouts. Therefore, routing algorithms are crucial for improving the performance of ad-hoc networks. This article will analyse the performance of the AODV, DSDV, and TORA routing protocols in the FANET environment. The NS-2 simulator has been used for testing parameters such as jitter, throughput, End-to-End delay, and packet delivery ratio (PDR). The simulation results indicate that TORA outperforms AODV and DSDV routing protocols across all performance metrics except End-to-End Delay.