Performance Analysis of Dynamic Routing for Flying Ad-hoc Networks

Abstract

Mobile Ad-Hoc Network is a self-configurable network. It will establish a network in on demand manner especially for battlefield communications. In such applications, intergroup communication is crucial to the team collaboration. To address this weakness, in this paper a new class of ad-hoc network called Flying Ad-Hoc Networks (FANETs) is introduced. A distributed client tracking solution to deal with the dynamic routing nature of client mobility, and present techniques for dynamic topology adaptation in accordance with the mobility pattern of the clients is proposed. The proposed system is two different routing algorithms for ad hoc networks: Optimized Link-State Routing (OLSR), and Predictive-OLSR (P-OLSR). The latter is an OLSR extension that is designed for FANETs. It takes advantage of the GPS information available on board.The simulation results indicate that FANET is robust against network partitioning and capable of providing high relay throughput for the clients. Depending on the high mobility of FANET nodes, the topology changes more frequently than the network topology of a typical MANET or even VANET. Multi-UAV systems may include different types of sensors, and each sensor may require different data delivery strategies.