A FANET Simulator Designed and Implemented to Study Routing Algorithms

Simulations for network implementations are an essential component for developing newer and better network solutions and protocols, especially when considering complex scenarios. For instance, networks composed of flying objects coordinating through multi-hop communication represent a foreseeable scenario in our society. The need for analyzing new and tailored solutions for this visionary context passes through the creation of specific tools. To this aim, we present here a novel discrete event simulator deployed to test Flying Ad-Hoc Networks (FANETs) and, in particular, their routing algorithms. In our simulator we have also implemented two different position-based routing protocols for FANETs; their implementation and results are discussed as well.