Abstract
The increasing demand of routing in the field of communication is the most important subject in ad hoc networks now a days. Flying Ad Hoc Network (FANET) is one of the emerging areas that evolved from Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. Selecting the best optimal path in any network is a real challenge for a routing protocol. Because the network performance like throughput, Quality of Service (QoS), user experience, response time and other key parameters depend upon the efficiency of the algorithm running inside the routing protocol. The complexity and diversity of the problem is augmented due to dynamic spatial and temporal mobility of FANET nodes. Due to these challenges the performance and efficiency of the routing protocol becomes very critical. This paper presents a novel routing protocol for FANET using modified AntHocNet. Ant colony optimization technique or metaheuristics in general has shown better dependability and performance as compared to other legacy best path selection techniques. Energy stabilizing parameter introduced in this study improves energy efficiency and overall network performance. Simulation results show that the proposed protocol is better than generic Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) and other traditional routing protocols utilized in FANET.
Highlights
Modern day realization of Flying Ad Hoc Network (FANET) is the result of instrumental growth and development in the field of wireless communication technologies
FANET routing protocol should be sensitive to packets drop, delay/jitter because these factors seriously effect the quality of service of any network
In this research a new metaheuristics based routing protocol is proposed to overcome the challenges of existing routing problems of flying adhoc networks
Summary
Modern day realization of FANETs is the result of instrumental growth and development in the field of wireless communication technologies. According to Gartner [1], by 2020 worldwide 5G wireless network infrastructure revenue will surpass over $4.2 billion, which will be an increase of 89% in the revenue as compared to following year 2019 These numbers reveal that wireless technologies will provide more coverage and enhanced data rates rendering optimal applications of FANET. FANET routing protocol should be sensitive to packets drop, delay/jitter because these factors seriously effect the quality of service of any network. In this paper we proposed a nature inspired routing protocol for flying adhoc networks that addresses these challenges.This article presents ant colony optimization - metaheuristics based energy efficient routing protocol for FANETs. Simulation results show significant reduction in packet drop rate, end to end delay, and improvement in network throughput, packet received ratio and work done (bits / joule) over other FANET protocols.
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