Proposal of Seeking Wireless Station by Flight Drones Based on Delay Tolerant Networks

Although the information network has become more important for the daily life, there are some considerable subjects such as the poor connectivity in disasters, local areas, and developing areas. On the other hands, the rapid developments of Information Technology expect to bring new usages of technologies, and one of the expectations is autonomous flight drones with IP wireless networks. Therefore, in this paper, the Autonomous Flight Wireless Node (AFW) is introduced for the delivery of message data under the poor network conditions such as disasters or local areas. This paper especially discusses the data connections with the DTN (Delay Tolerant Networks) and autonomous flights for seeking possible encounters. Then, the implementations and the experimentations of the prototype system are carried out for the effectiveness of the functions. Finally, the results are used for the discussions of the future studies.