Energy-balance-based Adaptive AODV in FAENT over the Ocean

• 1、Key Laboratory of Wireless Communication Ministry of Education,Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876

Abstract：With the constant emphasis on ocean value and the continuous enhancement of UAV technology, the deployment of Ad-hoc networks consisting of UAVs(FANET) over the ocean has high military and civilian value. Routing protocols are an integral part of wireless mobile ad hoc networks. Compared with the traditional Ad hoc network, FAENT has the characteristics of fast node movement and large topology change. The classic routing protocol cannot be fully applied. The purpose of this paper is to propose the adaptive AODV routing protocol based on energy balance,EA-AODV. The improved AODV routing protocol fully analyzes the characteristics of UAV and FANET. In the new protocol, three parameters of energy, congestion degree and distance are considered together, and ant colony is introduced in order to select the most suitable next hop node and keep the routing of the entire system as long as possible. The network simulation of the improved protocol using NS-3 shows that the new protocol has higher packet transmission rate and lower overhead, which improves the performance of FANET.

Keywords： FAENT AODV Ant Colony Optimization algorithm Energy Balance