Search for: [Description = "With growing popularity of unmanned aerial vehicles \(UAVs\), the importance of flying ad\-hoc networks \(FANETs\) is enhanced by such applications as 4K video recording, communications in search and rescue missions and goods deliveries, to name just a few. This, in turn, stimulates research on different topologies of networks existing between UAVs, with studies in this field being essential to improving performance of such networks. Several problems must be solved to effectively use UAVs in order to offer stable and reliable massive data transmission capabilities, taking into consideration quickly changing FANET topologies, types of routing, security issues, etc. In this paper, a comprehensive evaluation of FANETs used by UAVs is presented in terms of communication network challenges, data types, mobility models and standards applied in order to achieve best performance. The evaluation presented herein covers such areas as data throughput, retransmission attempts and delay."]