An Adaptive and Opportunistic Based Routing Protocol in Flying Ad Hoc Networks (FANETs): A Survey

Abstract

FANET is a special form of ad hoc networks in which UAVs are mobile nodes they can fly in the air autonomously and can be operated remotely. FANETs has many advantages as well as disadvantages compared with MANET and VANET. The existing routing protocols of traditional adhoc networks can’t satisfy all the requirements of FANETs. In Multi-UAV systems, during mission operation changes can occur dynamically. Due to unique characteristics of FANETs communication is a big challenging issue. So that it is necessary to develop a new routing protocol that must be able to update routing table dynamically. In this paper, describes functionality of FANETs and collected information from different existing routing protocols for FANETs and used effective routing techniques to increase the efficiency of routing protocol. Communication protocols are also discussed.