Swarm Mobility Models and Impact of Link State Awareness in Ad Hoc Routing

With the development of new communication models and the establishment of next-generation cellular communications, new applications have been enabled and new communication requirements have emerged. Flying ad hoc networks are pivotal in supporting this technological leap, and as such, resorting to application- and mobility-aware routing is a promising enabler of this emerging set of use cases. This paper discusses matters of swarm mobility modelling, types of applicable routing protocols, whilst aiming to correlate channel link state awareness with quality of service in different mobility scenarios. The results of this paper will help formulate new methodologies and best practices for ad hoc routing protocols, considering computational and communication quality demands.