Chaining Mobility Models for AODV and DSR protocols in FANETs

Abstract

Flying Ad hoc Networks (FANETs) is a collection of unmanned aerial vehicles that communicate without any predefined infrastructure. FANETs being the most searched and researched topic nowadays is finding its scope in flying objects like Drones used for military applications like border surveillance and for civil applications like disaster management, traffic monitoring. Mobility models are designed to represent the movement pattern of nodes. A realistic simulation environment created using mobility model plays a major role to evaluate the performance of ad hoc routing protocols. In this research, new chain mobility model is proposed by integrating existing Random Waypoint mobility model and Gauss-Markov mobility model to get the better performance in FANET routing protocols. The performance of protocols varies significantly by using different mobility models. The objectives of this thesis is to simulate the AODV and DSR routing protocols in FANETs using different mobility models and to get the best mobility model which will optimize the end to end delay, packet delivery ratio and throughput performance parameters. The AODV and DSR routing protocols are simulated using NS2 simulator and the performance parameters are analyzed for Random Waypoint model, Gauss-Markov model and RGIM the proposed chain mobility model. The results show improvements in terms of Packet Delivery Ratio, Throughput and End to End Delay with RGIM.