Reliable Data Exchange in UAV Swarm Networks Using Advanced Networking Techniques
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ICCK Transactions on Advanced Computing and Systems
Volume 2, Issue 3, 2026: 212-224
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Reliable Data Exchange in UAV Swarm Networks Using Advanced Networking Techniques

1 Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, Peshawar, Pakistan
2 Iqra National University, Peshawar, Pakistan
3 Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada
* Corresponding Author: Syed Haider Ali, [email protected]
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Abstract

The proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has driven the emergence of Flying Ad-hoc Networks (FANETs) as distributed cyber-physical computing systems for surveillance, disaster management, precision agriculture, and logistics. Optimizing computational and communication resource utilization within these constrained aerial systems is essential to extend network lifespan and maintain satisfactory quality of service (QoS). This study proposes integrating the Fisheye State Routing (FSR) protocol with a 3$\times$3 Manhattan Grid mobility model as a computing-systems solution for reliable data exchange in dynamic UAV swarm networks. FSR maintains distributed topology tables and applies Dijkstra's algorithm to compute optimal routing paths, enabling adaptive resource allocation across continuously reconfiguring network architectures. Performance is evaluated across six metrics—packet delivery ratio, packet drop rate, end-to-end delay, channel utilization, throughput, and jitter—under two scenarios of twenty and thirty nodes. FSR achieves packet delivery ratios of 46% and 53% respectively, with minimal end-to-end latencies of 0.010 and 0.244 seconds and reduced jitter, outperforming five topology-based protocols (OLSR, AODV, DSR, TORA, DSDV) in resource utilization across all evaluated metrics.

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Reliable Data Exchange in UAV Swarm Networks Using Advanced Networking Techniques

Keywords

UAV swarm networks FSR FANET network and communication systems internet of aerial vehicles cyber-physical systems resource optimization green UAV communications routing protocol

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James Adu Ansere served as an Associate Editor of the ICCK Transactions on Advanced Computing and Systems at the time of manuscript submission. To ensure the integrity of the peer-review process, James Adu Ansere was not involved in the editorial handling, peer review, or decision-making process for this manuscript, which was handled independently by another editor. The remaining authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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Ali, S. H., Ali, S. A., Ansere, J. A., Younas, M., & Ullah, S. (2026). Reliable Data Exchange in UAV Swarm Networks Using Advanced Networking Techniques. ICCK Transactions on Advanced Computing and Systems, 2(3), 212-224. https://doi.org/10.62762/TACS.2025.747408
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  author = {Syed Haider Ali and Syed Ashraf Ali and James Adu Ansere and Muhammad Younas and Sana Ullah},
  title = {Reliable Data Exchange in UAV Swarm Networks Using Advanced Networking Techniques},
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  abstract = {The proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has driven the emergence of Flying Ad-hoc Networks (FANETs) as distributed cyber-physical computing systems for surveillance, disaster management, precision agriculture, and logistics. Optimizing computational and communication resource utilization within these constrained aerial systems is essential to extend network lifespan and maintain satisfactory quality of service (QoS). This study proposes integrating the Fisheye State Routing (FSR) protocol with a 3\$\times\$3 Manhattan Grid mobility model as a computing-systems solution for reliable data exchange in dynamic UAV swarm networks. FSR maintains distributed topology tables and applies Dijkstra's algorithm to compute optimal routing paths, enabling adaptive resource allocation across continuously reconfiguring network architectures. Performance is evaluated across six metrics—packet delivery ratio, packet drop rate, end-to-end delay, channel utilization, throughput, and jitter—under two scenarios of twenty and thirty nodes. FSR achieves packet delivery ratios of 46\% and 53\% respectively, with minimal end-to-end latencies of 0.010 and 0.244 seconds and reduced jitter, outperforming five topology-based protocols (OLSR, AODV, DSR, TORA, DSDV) in resource utilization across all evaluated metrics.},
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