NS-3 Simulation of Poisson-Pareto Burst Process in Multi-Source FANET Scenario with Network Coding

This paper considers the Poisson Pareto Burst Process as a traffic model for describing data streaming process from the flying node to the ground station. The flying node is the gateway of flying ad hoc network (FANET) that consists of several unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Two scenarios are considered in the paper: in the first scenario, the gateway node in the form of a UAV transmits data from several UAVs to the ground station directly; in the second scenario, between the flying gateway node and the ground station, there is a relay-node with the OLSR routing protocol enabled. To evaluate QoS was selected Goodput metric. According to the experiments' results, it was concluded that an increase in the number of sources increases the requirements for QoS metric. The solution to the problems could be the use of the network coding method, which is described through a scenario of two oncoming streams.