A Comparison of Different Dynamic Routing Protocols in FANETs

Abstract

Among the technological advances, the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) saw an evolution in this last decade, their employment in civil applications, such as firefighting, disaster management, environmental monitoring and policing, is increased recently. The UAVs are connected with Ad- hoc modes like Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) and Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs), this is another innovation in the wireless network where requirements change largely from long-established networking systems. Furthermore, the cooperative work is required in both civil and military applications to accomplish intensive missions. Flying Ad-hoc Networks (FANETs) have been developed using techniques that assist the transmission of information in real-time. The high mobility and quick topology change in UAV networks caused the difficulty for specialists to insert routing in FANETs. Routing protocols have a useful role to improve the performance of these networks. This paper presents a comparison between the different dynamic routing protocols to attain the high quality of service using the NS3 simulator.