Flying Ad Hoc Network (FANET): Opportunities, Trending Applications and Simulators

Flying objects have always been an exciting and attractive world to feel and watch. It ranges from a fly-enabled playing toy to commercial planes. When it comes to the wireless networking domain, flying ad hoc network plays a vital role in managing and handling unmanned aerial vehicles (or drones) to serve a variety of real-time applications like inagriculture, remote sensing, terrorist location tracking, good delivery, weather prediction, forest fire monitoring and many more. Since these drones have flying capacity without any assistance from human personnel, their applicability regions are growing day by day. Now a days, this field is a center point of attraction for the researcher community due to its highly dynamic attributes and hence through this work, we present various research opportunities in this domain of drone-based networks along with a discussion to its trending applications. We have also discussed various existing simulators that are capable of modeling this kind of ad hoc domain in their platforms and are quite helpful for future investigators to understand the best-suited environment for their art-of-works in regard to this field.