A Networked Multi-Agent System for Mobile Wireless Infrastructure on Demand
Miguel Calvo-Fullana, Mikhail Gerasimenko, Daniel Mox, Leopoldo, Agorio, Mariana del Castillo, Vijay Kumar, Alejandro Ribeiro, Juan Andres, Bazerque

TL;DR
This paper presents a system of UAVs that can be rapidly deployed to create adaptable, on-demand wireless networks, maintaining quality of service in dynamic environments through optimization and reconfiguration.
Contribution
It introduces a novel mobile wireless infrastructure system using UAVs that dynamically reconfigure to provide reliable connectivity on demand, validated through simulations and real-world tests.
Findings
Effective in extending operational range of agents
Supports complex mobility patterns
Ensures connectivity and resilience to failures
Abstract
Despite the prevalence of wireless connectivity in urban areas around the globe, there remain numerous and diverse situations where connectivity is insufficient or unavailable. To address this, we introduce mobile wireless infrastructure on demand, a system of UAVs that can be rapidly deployed to establish an ad-hoc wireless network. This network has the capability of reconfiguring itself dynamically to satisfy and maintain the required quality of communication. The system optimizes the positions of the UAVs and the routing of data flows throughout the network to achieve this quality of service (QoS). By these means, task agents using the network simply request a desired QoS, and the system adapts accordingly while allowing them to move freely. We have validated this system both in simulation and in real-world experiments. The results demonstrate that our system effectively offers…
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Taxonomy
TopicsMobile Ad Hoc Networks · UAV Applications and Optimization · Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks
