Evaluation index

Number of drones

AODV

DSDV

OLSR

Packet delivery rate

20

0.873

0.8361

0.8299

30

0.9657

0.7188

0.8888

40

0.8313

0.8476

0.8991

50

0.8291

0.6858

0.8421

Average end-to-end delay

20

0.0249

0.0167

0.0018

30

0.0017

0.0231

0.0025

40

0.0133

0.0169

0.0035

50

0.0131

0.0357

0.0055

Average number of hops

20

2.0011

2.3667

1.9966

30

2.8219

3.1969

2.7126

40

2.4531

2.7381

2.8504

50

2.6958

2.7271

2.5087