Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used in our modern society and their development is rapidly accelerating. Flying Ad Hoc Networks (FANETs) have opened a new window of opportunity to create new value-added services. However, the characteristics that make FANETs unique, such as node mobility, node distance, energy constraints, etc., imply that several guidelines need to be considered for their successful deployment. Although numerous routing protocols have been proposed for FANETs, due to the wide range of applications in which FANETs can be applied, not all routing protocols can be used. Due to this challenge, after breaking down and classifying the different types of existing routing protocols for FANET, this paper analyzes and compares the performance of several routing protocols (Babel, BATMAN-ADV, and OLSR) in terms of throughput and packet loss in a real deployment composed of several UAV nodes using 2.4 and 5 GHz WiFi networks. The results show that Babel achieves better performance in the studied metrics than OLSR and BATMAN-ADV, while BATMAN-ADV delivers significantly lower performance. This experimental study confirms the importance of choosing the proper routing protocol for FANETs and their performance evaluation, something that will be extremely important in a few years when this type of network will be common in our day-to-day life.

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实时Ad-Hoc网络路由协议的比较性能评估

无人机（UAV）在现代社会中得到了广泛的应用，并且其发展正在迅速加速。飞行特设网络（FANET）为创建新的增值服务打开了新的机会窗口。但是，使FANET独树一帜的特性（例如节点移动性，节点距离，能量限制等）意味着成功部署需要考虑一些准则。尽管已经为FANET提出了许多路由协议，但是由于可以应用FANET的应用范围很广，因此并不是所有的路由协议都可以使用。由于这一挑战，在对FANET的现有路由协议的不同类型进行分类和分类之后，本文分析并比较了几种路由协议的性能（Babel，BATMAN-ADV，和OLSR）在实际部署中的吞吐量和数据包丢失方面，这些部署由使用2.4 GHz和5 GHz WiFi网络的多个UAV节点组成。结果表明，Babel在研究指标中的性能优于OLSR和BATMAN-ADV，而BATMAN-ADV的性能却明显较低。这项实验性研究证实了为FANET选择正确的路由协议及其性能评估的重要性，而在几年后这种类型的网络在我们的日常生活中越来越普遍的情况下，这一点将变得尤为重要。