Evaluation of AODV and DSDV routing protocols for a FANET: Further results towards robotic vehicle networks

Flying Ad-Hoc Network (FANET) is basically a special form of Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) which is formed by a group of wireless nodes, which can dynamically form a network to exchange information without the necessity of using a fixed network infrastructure. Its good performance and its low cost, make it suitable for use in several applications such as environment sensors, vehicular communications, disaster rescue operations, air/land/navy defense and so on. In the present work the performance evaluation of Ad hoc on Demand Distance Vector (AODV) and Destination-Sequenced Distance-Vector (DSDV) routing protocols for a FANET using the software package NS2. The metrics of delivery rate, end-to-end delay and throughput are calculated for both protocols in order to evaluate its performance in the network. Besides, an energy analysis is shown for each protocol since energy is a key technical challenge for embedded and mobile applications. These results represent the base for future development of collaborative control protocols for robotic vehicle networks.