A Simulation Study for Typical Routing Protocols in Aircraft Ad Hoc Networks

Followed by our previous works, a study for performance evaluation of existing typical routing protocols for aircraft ad hoc networks is presented in this paper. The main objective of this evaluation is to figure out the impact of high speed movement and spare deployment over well-known routing protocols with new mobility pattern for aircraft ad hoc networks. The chosen protocols are three major protocols according to general categorization, this is, AODV, DSDV, and GPSR. By analyzing the result of performance evaluation, we demonstrate the suitability of those in aircraft ad hoc networks in the terms of packet delivery ratio, end-to-end delay and control overhead and discuss further works in this research area. Finally, rough conclusion is made that it is necessary to develop new routing protocol based on DTN for aircraft ad hoc networks.