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A performance‐aware routing mechanism for flying ad hoc networks
Author(s) -
Ali Hannan,
Islam Saif ul,
Song Houbing,
Munir Kashif
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
transactions on emerging telecommunications technologies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.366
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 2161-3915
DOI - 10.1002/ett.4192
Subject(s) - computer science , computer network , wireless ad hoc network , optimized link state routing protocol , overhead (engineering) , routing (electronic design automation) , throughput , network packet , routing protocol , mobile ad hoc network , mechanism (biology) , distributed computing , adaptive quality of service multi hop routing , adaptation (eye) , wireless , telecommunications , philosophy , epistemology , physics , optics , operating system
Flying ad hoc networks (FANETs) are visioned to unlock the potential of the Internet of Drones in various application scenarios like surveillance, agriculture, health care, disaster management, and rescue operations. As the unmanned aerial vehicles possess fast movements and frequent topological variations, selection of the next hop, self‐adaptation, and avoidance of dissemination loops have proven to be the challenging issues that have a considerable impact on the performance of a FANET. We propose a performance‐aware routing mechanism, G‐OLSR, for efficient communication and collaboration among the unmanned aerial vehicles in a FANET environment. The self‐adaptation of the network in case of any topological changes is considered in the proposed mechanism. Moreover, the proposed mechanism avoids the dissemination loops and it, consequently, improves the performance of the network. The simulation results show that the proposed mechanism performs better in terms of delay, message overhead, packet delivery ratio, and throughput than Optimized Link State Routing.