Performance Analysis of Routing Protocols for FANETs

Routing protocols play an important role in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication networks. When transferring information in low-altitude environments, UAVs confront difficulties in ensuring efficient and reliable packet transmission between nodes. To address this scientific challenge, a routing protocol needs to be developed that can meet these requirements. In this paper, we have created a more realistic simulation environment based on NS-3 and conducted performance tests and comparisons on four classic routing protocols: Ad Hoc on-demand distance vector (AODV), Destination-Sequenced Distance-Vector Routing (DSDV), Dynamic Source routing (DSR) and optimized link state routing (OLSR). We have analyzed performance parameters such as packet delivery and throughput. Our findings demonstrate that alternative routing strategies may function effectively in several UAV communication network circumstances. These experiments generate quantitative data that determines the optimum pathways in every specific scenario. According to the data analysis, while utilized on networks of 50,100,200, and 250, the AODV protocol has an accuracy of 96%. The DSR protocol achieves 90% accuracy, the DSDV protocol 87% accuracy, and the OLSR protocol 80%. The results show that AODV outperforms other traditional approaches, resulting in a considerable improvement in network efficacy.