A Comparative Performance Evaluation of Routing Protocols for Flying Ad-Hoc Networks in Real Conditions

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used in our modern society and their development is rapidly accelerating. Flying Ad Hoc Networks (FANETs) have opened a new window of opportunity to create value-added services. However, the characteristics that make FANETs unique, such as node mobility, distance, energy constraints, etc., imply several guidelines need be considered for successful deployment. Although numerous routing protocols been proposed FANETs, due wide range applications which can applied, not all used. Due this challenge, after breaking down classifying different types existing FANET, paper analyzes compares performance (Babel, BATMAN-ADV, OLSR) terms throughput packet loss real deployment composed UAV nodes using 2.4 5 GHz WiFi networks. The results show Babel achieves better studied metrics than OLSR while BATMAN-ADV delivers significantly lower performance. This experimental study confirms importance choosing proper protocol evaluation, something will extremely important few years when type network common day-to-day life.