Comprehensive Study on Routing in FANET

Abstract

The rapid proliferation of networking and wireless communication technologies has led to the development of low-cost unmanned aerial vehicles, which will soon occupy a significant amount of the sky. UAVs may be effectively used to complete complicated missions when arranged as an ad hoc network, leading to the creation of well-known flying ad hoc networks. Without the implementation of an efficient networking model that enables the dependable transfer of data between UAVs, the creation of such networks is not feasible. The diverse flying limits and highly dynamic topology of FANETs make designing routing protocols a very difficult task. An extensive investigation of routing in FANETs is provided in this work. A wide range of current FANET routing protocols are compared and clarified. This work is unique because it can give a thorough analysis of the main FANET routing protocols and assess them based on many restrictions and important characteristics, better representing the state of the art in this field of study at the moment.