Autonomous deployment algorithm for resilient mobile mesh networks

In order to quickly reconstruct a wireless communications network destroyed by a disaster, we propose a resilient mobile-mesh-network deployment algorithm to autonomously build a mobile mesh network in a desired area by focusing on wireless base stations with autonomous mobile function. Our proposed method is an adaptive network deployment algorithm based on the simple position estimation technique using only the received signal strength indicator (RSSI). By determining the order of movement and movement direction of mobile base stations, we specifically employ (1) move and reference modes and (2) moving direction control based on a time variation of the RSSI. After verifying the proposed method using simulations, we clarified an effectiveness of proposed algorithm from the view point of total moving distance by compared with reference method.