Presentation 2016-03-03
Method for Determining Traveling Route in Consideration of Number of Users for Message Ferry Using UAV
Tomohiro Kondo, Takuji Tachibana,
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Abstract(in English) In delay tolerant networks (DTN) where Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is used as message ferry, users can transmit data to other users with UAV. In such a data transmission, it is indispensable to decide a moving route by considering the total number of users on the route and the moving distance. In this paper, we propose a method for determining traveling route by considering the number of users and the moving distance. In this method, at first, a map for denoting the number of users at each position is generated in order to decide a traveling route based on the number of users. Then, by using the map, the minimum cost route between two any serves is derived with Dijkstra algorithm. Finally, from the derived route, the traveling route is decided by using traveling salesman problem. We evaluate the performance of the proposed method with simulation and investigate the impact of setting parameters on the performance of the proposed method. In numerical examples, we show that the proposed method is effective in any environments.
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Keyword(in English) DTN / Message ferry / UAV / Dijkstra algorithm / Traveling salesman problem
Paper # NS2015-185
Date of Issue 2016-02-25 (NS)

Conference Information
Committee NS / IN
Conference Date 2016/3/3(2days)
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Place (in English) Phoenix Seagaia Resort
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Topics (in English) General
Chair Atsushi Hiramatsu(NTT-AT) / Hidetsugu Kobayashi(NTT)
Vice Chair Hideki Tode(Osaka Pref. Univ.) / Katsunori Yamaoka(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.)
Secretary Hideki Tode(Univ. of Fukui) / Katsunori Yamaoka(NTT)
Assistant Shohei Kamamura(NTT) / Yuichi Sudo(NTT) / Kunitake Kaneko(Keio Univ.)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Network Systems / Technical Committee on Information Networks
Language JPN
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Sub Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Title (in English) Method for Determining Traveling Route in Consideration of Number of Users for Message Ferry Using UAV
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) DTN
Keyword(2) Message ferry
Keyword(3) UAV
Keyword(4) Dijkstra algorithm
Keyword(5) Traveling salesman problem
1st Author's Name Tomohiro Kondo
1st Author's Affiliation University of Fukui(Univ. of Fukui)
2nd Author's Name Takuji Tachibana
2nd Author's Affiliation University of Fukui(Univ. of Fukui)
Date 2016-03-03
Paper # NS2015-185
Volume (vol) vol.115
Number (no) NS-483
Page pp.pp.99-104(NS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2016-02-25 (NS)