(Performance Evaluation of Ad-Hoc Routing Protocols in (FANET

Abstract

The utilization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as aerial relays for the Internet of Drones (IoD) network has several advantages such as civilian and military applications. The collaboration between them becomes a very interesting research topic. A Flying Ad-Hoc Network (FANETs) is a group of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) which can complete their function without human intervention. FANET is considered as a subset of MANET, however, due to high mobility and rapid topology changes in FANET applying routing protocols in FANET is a big challenge. In this thesis, we have extensively evaluated the most of important topology-based routing protocols such as OLSR, AODV, DSR, TORA & GRP in FANET environment. those protocols have been evaluated using an OPNET 17.5 network simulator. We have compared the protocols using Packet loss ratio, end to end delay, Number of hops and throughput in different moving speeds and mobility models like Random Waypoint Mobility (RWPM), Manhattan Grid Mobility Model (MGM), Semi Circular Random Movement (SCRM) and Pursue Mobility Model (PRS). For all evaluation scenarios, the results show that OLSR and GRP perform better than AODV, DSR, and TORA on average. Also, the effect of node mobility on performance is higher than the effect of node speed on performance.