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A Multi-Beam Antenna (MBA) can be defined as a set of directional radio transceivers. These transceivers are facing different directions to prevent signal interference with each other. MBA nodes have two main characteristics: the Multi-Packet Transmission (MPT) capability and the Multi-Packet Reception (MPR) capability whereby a node can transmit/receive multiple packets at the same time. In this...
Flying Ad-hoc Networks (FANETs) [1] are mobile ad-hoc networks formed by small and medium-sized UAVs. Nowadays, most UAVs are equipped with omnidirectional antennas. In addition, most of the existing routing protocols were designed assuming the use of omnidirectional antennas. Directional antennas have the potential to increase spatial reuse, save the battery's energy, and substantially increase the...
An Unmanned Aerial Ad hoc Network (UAANET) is a special type of Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET). For these networks, researchers rely mostly on simulations to evaluate their proposed networking protocols. One major component of such simulation studies is the movement pattern of the UAVs. In this paper, we first show that mobility models affect the performance of UAANET/MANET routing protocols. To study...
Routing protocols are designed assuming certain application-specific network characteristics. In order for a routing protocol to be effective and reliable it needs to be evaluated with a realistic mobility model. The Random Waypoint mobility model, widely used, allows node to stop suddenly and turn sharply, and therefore fails to capture the movement pattern of actual airborne vehicles. In this paper...
The Reactive-Greedy-Reactive (RGR) protocol, as proposed in [2], is a routing protocol specifically designed for unmanned aeronautical ad hoc networks. Since RGR is based on the Ad Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV), the routes with the least number of hops are ultimately preferred during the route discovery. Overall, freshness and path length (in hops) are the two criteria that govern route selection...
Unmanned Aeronautical Ad Hoc Networks (UAANETs) are a type of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) which are infrastructureless and self-organizing networks. The specificity of UAANETs is that they are formed by small and medium sized Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) also known as drones. In UAANETs as well as in MANETs, geographic routing is widely used. Geographic routing relies on Greedy Forwarding (GF),...
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