Resilient Network with Autonomous Flight Wireless Nodes
based on Delay Tolerant Networks


Noriki Uchida1*, Norihiro Kawamura2, Tomoyuki Ishida3 and Yoshitaka Shibata4

 

1Saitama Institute of Technology
Fukaya, Saitama, Japan.

uchida@sit.ac.jp
 

2TACEngieering Co., LTD.
Morioka, Iwate, Japan.

nor.kawamura@tac-e.co.jp

3Ibaraki University
Hitachi, Ibaraki, Japan.

ishida@mx.ibaraki.ac.jp

4Iwate Prefectural University
Takizawa, Iwate, Japan.

shibata@iwate-pu.ac.jp


Abstract

Although the communication networks have been more important for one's life with the development of the technology, the resiliency of networks has been focused as the subjects of new network technology. When there are disasters, many residential areas might be isolated because of the disconnection of communication networks. Therefore, this paper proposes the resilient network with Autonomous FlightWireless Nodes based on the Delay Tolerant Networks with the Data Triage Method, and then the implementation and the results of field experiments of the prototype is discussed for the future studies. In the proposed system, the AFW automatically flies for seeking possible wireless nodes, send and receive disaster information by the proposed DTN routings, and return to the possible stations that wireless charge units are equipped when the battery needs to charge. Then, the implementations the prototype is introduced, and the field experiments of the wireless networks are discussed for the future studies of the proposed methods.

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*Corresponding Author: Noriki Uchida
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IT Convergence Practice (INPRA), Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 41-52, September 2014 [pdf]