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.
Highlights
Ad hoc networks are becoming an essential part of our modern technological infrastructure, expanding the range of available applications and their characteristics
The potential of Flying Ad Hoc Networks (FANETs) can increase in the coming years with the advent of new communication technologies and standards such as 6G, the Internet of Things (IoT), and connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs)
Due to the characteristic constant changes in the network topology of FANETs, the selection of the routing protocol is a crucial task for effective deployment and successful operation
Summary
Ad hoc networks are becoming an essential part of our modern technological infrastructure, expanding the range of available applications and their characteristics. Link-State Routing (OLSR), Better Approach to Mobile Ad Hoc Networking Advanced (BATMAN-ADV), and Babel. They are compared in terms of throughput and packet losses in a network composed of several UAVs and an intermediate relay node. We chose these proactive routing protocols because of their high mobility range, low latency, widespread use in ad hoc networks, and good power consumption; they have relatively low complexity and computational demands, allowing us to simplify and automate some of the challenges mentioned in [1,2,3].
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