Message communication system using unmanned aerial vehicles under large-scale disaster environments
- 1 August 2015
- conference paper
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015 IEEE 26th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)
- p. 2171-2176
- https://doi.org/10.1109/pimrc.2015.7343657
Abstract
A distributed and expansible architecture for providing message communication service to nodes, which are typically shelters, in a wide disaster-affected area is presented. The large disaster-affected area is divided into a number of sub-areas, to each of which a pair of electric and unmanned aerial vehicles (EVs and UAVs) is assigned. Message files are sent and received through a wireless link between each node and the UAV flying over the node. They are also carried by this UAV (end-to-end-transfer) or carried/relayed by multiple UAVs (relay transfer) from/to the center station in the area. For simple square area modeling, sub-area formation methods such as time-uniform, space-uniform, and hybrid-uniform divisions are established for end-to-end transfer. The relay can be performed synchronously or asynchronously in relay transfer. Several observations are made through numerical examples.Keywords
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