Experimental analysis of AODV, DSDV and OLSR routing protocol for flying adhoc networks (FANETs)

In recent years the capability and role of Mobile Adhoc Networks have rapidly evolved. Their use in emergency, natural disaster, military battle fields and UAVs is getting very popular as a result of cutting edge technologies in networking and communication. Using the concept of MANET new networking paradigms like VANET and FANET have evolved. FANET is comparably new concept of MANET and it has capabilities to tackle with situations where traditional MANET cannot do so. Due to high mobility and fast topology change in FANET, this is highly challengeable for researcher to implement routing in FANETs. Routing protocols play a dominating role in enhancing the performance of adhoc networks. In this paper, experimental analysis is carried out on AODV, DSDV and OLSR routing protocol for FANET environment using NS2 simulator.