An Overview of Aerial Wireless Relay Networks for Emergency Communications during Large-Scale Disasters

Hiraku OKADA

doi:10.1587/transcom.2020SEI0001

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An Overview of Aerial Wireless Relay Networks for Emergency Communications during Large-Scale Disasters

Hiraku OKADA

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In emergency communication systems research, aerial wireless relay networks (AWRNs) using multicopter unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been proposed. The main issue of the AWRNs is how to minimize the delay time of packet transmissions since it is not easy to supply many multicopters to cover a wide area. In this paper, we review the flight schemes and their delay time for the AWRNs. Furthermore, the network has specific issues such as multicopters' drops due to their battery capacity depletion and inclination of moving multicopters. The inclination of multicopters affects the received power, and the communication range changes based on the inclination as well. Therefore, we clarify the effect of these issues on the delay time.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E103-B No.12 pp.1376-1384

Publication Date: 2020/12/01

Publicized: 2020/07/01

Online ISSN: 1745-1345

DOI: 10.1587/transcom.2020SEI0001

Type of Manuscript: Special Section INVITED PAPER (Special Section on IoT Sensor Networks and Mobile Intelligence)

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Hiraku OKADA
Nagoya University

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aerial wireless relay networks, multicopter UAV, delay time, flight schemes

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Hiraku OKADA, "An Overview of Aerial Wireless Relay Networks for Emergency Communications during Large-Scale Disasters" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications, vol. E103-B, no. 12, pp. 1376-1384, December 2020, doi: 10.1587/transcom.2020SEI0001.
Abstract: In emergency communication systems research, aerial wireless relay networks (AWRNs) using multicopter unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been proposed. The main issue of the AWRNs is how to minimize the delay time of packet transmissions since it is not easy to supply many multicopters to cover a wide area. In this paper, we review the flight schemes and their delay time for the AWRNs. Furthermore, the network has specific issues such as multicopters' drops due to their battery capacity depletion and inclination of moving multicopters. The inclination of multicopters affects the received power, and the communication range changes based on the inclination as well. Therefore, we clarify the effect of these issues on the delay time.
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