Research Article

A Method to Reduce Route Discovery Cost of UAV Ad Hoc Network

Table 4

Performance comparison of ERS with state-of-the-art algorithms.

AlgorithmPacket overheadSearch timeCoverageRouting overhead

ERSLowHighHighLow
Enhanced ERSLowMediumHighLow
Blocking ERSLowVery highHighVery low
EDS (proposed)Very lowVery lowHighLow
Blocking EDS (proposed)LowHighHighVery low