Simulation study of application layer relaying algorithms with data-link ARQ in flying ad hoc networks

Abstract

In this paper, we propose relaying algorithms and investigate their efficiency at the application layer of flying ad hoc networks (FANETs). We consider two scenarios with a network of two nodes (the source and the destination) and two scenarios with a network of twelve nodes (the source, the destination, and ten nodes that form “the swarm”). We use 802.11n standard at the data-link layer and optimized link-state routing protocol (OLSR) at the network layer of OSI model. We propose chunk-by-chunk, fifty-fifty, and ratio-based relaying algorithms. We compare efficiencies of these algorithms by packet delivery metric (PDR).

Keywords

• flying ad hoc networks
• relaying
• ARQ