Wireless Communications Challenges to Flying Ad Hoc Networks (FANET)

Abstract

The increasing demand for Internet access from more and more different devices in recent years has provided a challenge for companies and the academic community to research and develop new solutions that support the increasing flow in the network, applications that require very low latencies and more dynamic and scalable infrastructures, in this context the mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) emerged as a possible solution and applying this technology in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) was developed the flying ad hoc networks (FANETs) which are wireless networks independent, its main characteristics are to have high mobility, scalability for different applications and scenarios and robustness to deal with possible communication failures. However, they still have several constraints such as limited flight time of UAVs and routing protocols that are capable of supporting network dynamics. To analyze this scenario, two simulations were developed where it was possible to observe the behavior of FANET with different routing protocols both during data transmission and video transmission. The results show that the choice of the best routing protocol must take into account the mobility of the UAVs and the necessary communication priority in the network.

UF‐GPSR: Modified geographical routing protocol for flying ad‐hoc networks

“…The 3D coordination of these multiple smart UAVs in an ad‐hoc fashion is formed by FANETs 12 . In the recent decade, numerous applications that demonstrate the usability of FANET, including Blockchain‐based security solutions for FANETs, 13 artificial intelligence‐based UAV communication techniques, 14 future Internet through FANET's environment, 15 the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud applications with FANETs, 16 and moreover machine and deep learning concepts based communication between UAVs in FANETs 17 . Additionally, FANETs overcome the limitations of traditional ad‐hoc networks, which are very poor due to hazardous situations such as earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, typical mountains, oceans, and many more.…”

IHBO_CA: an improved honey-badger optimization-based communication approach for energy-efficient deployment of secure flying ad-hoc network (FANET)

“…In order to improve the total performance of the contact network, the ad-hoc network [8,9] is combined with the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones to form FANET [10] having high mobility, scalability and robustness. The dynamic nature of FANET [11,12] is preferred several routing protocols for data and video communication.…”