Wireless Networks allow communication between nodes without any support from an existing infrastructure. In this manner, wireless ad hoc networks gained large amount of awareness from the industry. Relatively a new research area introduced in wireless ad hoc networks, called flying ad hoc networks (FANETs). It consists of collection of nodes called Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) fly in the air autonomously based on pre-programmed flight plans. In FANET, no need to communicate all UAVs with ground station, only one backbone UAV connect with ground station and remaining all UAVs communicate with each other in ad hoc manner. Compared with ground based networks like MANETs and VANETs, FANETs are more efficient to deliver data communication. Communication between UAV nodes is a critical issue in FANET due to high mobility of UAV nodes in the network area. Many routing protocols were developed for MANETs and VANETs can’t be applied directly on FANET applications. It is essential to design robust and reliable protocol for Multi-UAV System in order to provide robust communication among the UAV nodes. Within the performance of routing protocol, mobility model plays a major role in FANETs. In FANET, the selection of a suitable mobility model is a critical task for researchers. In this paper, discussed communication architecture which one is suitable for FANETs, what is the need of routing protocol and mobility model for data deliver in the network and which protocol and mobility model provides strong communications between UAV-to-UAV networks.
Volume 11 | 06-Special Issue
Pages: 948-954