Mobility-Aware Gradient Routing Algorithm for Flying Ad hoc Networks

Abstract

In recent years, Flying Ad hoc Networks (FANETs) consisted of multi Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) through multi-hop wireless communication links, have been widely involved in the military and civilian domains. Due to highly dynamic topology, high mobility, and varying radio link quality, the unicast routing protocols for FANETs still provide limited performance in the dynamic environment. In this paper, we conceive a novel Mobility-aware Gradient Routing protocol for Flying Ad hoc networks, named as MGRF. We introduce the mobility information of nodes into the computation of the routing cost, which guides receivers to make the forwarding decision. The simulation results indicate that MGRF achieves the high message delivery ratio under highly dynamic FANETs environment, compared to other unicast routing protocols.