Comparative analysis of simulator tools for unmanned aerial vehicle communication networks Online publication date: Mon, 04-Jul-2022
by Haque Nawaz; Husnain Mansoor Ali; Shafiq-ur-Rehman Massan
International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control (IJMIC), Vol. 39, No. 4, 2021
Abstract: In recent years, the real-world problems are being solved by researchers using the simulation method for experiments in the field of networks and communication. However, the simulator tools are generally used to assess the theories, ideas, and hypothesis by research society. The unmanned aerial vehicle communication networks (UAVCNs) is an emerging area, having many issues which could be explored by the development of testbed scenarios using the simulator tools. Therefore, it is a more important task for researchers to select an appropriate simulator tool for a specific research experiment. This paper presents nine simulator tools. In addition, four simulator tools' performance is evaluated in terms of memory utilisation and computation time concerning increasing the density of network nodes. Consequently, it has been observed that Ns-3 is more efficient than Ns-2, OMNeT+ +, and GloMoSim. In addition, using these tools, researchers can explore and evaluate the performance of UAVCN.
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