Multi-Stream Simulated Scenario in FANET Based on Poisson Pareto Burst Process in NS-3

The influence of streaming data traffic from several flying source nodes in a self-organizing network of unmanned aerial vehicles (Flying Ad Hoc Network - FANET) on the Quality of Service (QoS) metric is studied. As a metric, the useful bandwidth (Goodput) of the network is used. To describe traffic with a high burst of data from multiple sources in the network simulator Network Simulation 3 (NS-3), the Poisson-Pareto model (PPBP) was used. PPBP is used to describe packet systems and is the most realistic model for describing Internet traffic. According to this model, data packets (for example, files) are generated in accordance with the Poisson process with a parameter, and the size of each packet has a Pareto distribution. The model was applied in the following scenario: a flying node-gateway transmitted traffic from a network of unmanned aerial vehicles generated according to the Poisson-Pareto model to a ground receiving node. In the course of research, it was concluded that an increase in the parameter and the presence of self-similar traffic increases the requirement for the QoS metric - Goodput. It can cause degradation of the packet delivery rate and increase the delays. The solution to this problem may be to add relay nodes, on which load balancing will be performed.