Performance test and analysis of multi-hop network based on UAV Ad Hoc network experiment

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV) has been developing rapidly which is also widely concerned in the military field, but the research on the communication services for the battlefield is seriously lack of development. Multi-UAV cooperative applications have better performance than single UAV, but the cooperative communication problems between UAVs need to be solved urgently. Therefore, the research of UAV Ad Hoc networks becomes very important. In this paper, we carry out a series of experimental based on the experiment of multi-UAV Ad Hoc networks, and set up a wireless multi-hop Ad Hoc network to test the performance of multi-hop network, including network responding time, packet loss rate and network bandwidth capacity. At last we analyze the network performance and make some prospects for the future UAV Ad Hoc network experiment.