Satellites, UAVs, vehicles and sensors for an integrated delay tolerant ad hoc network

Abstract

In this paper, a fully meshed mobile ad hoc network is introduced as an alternative to a classical wide area network, as the Internet. Internet of Things, Internet of Vehicles, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and satellites are the enabling technologies of such a complex scenario with support to multilevel mobility, overlaid deployments, as well as techniques offering Delay Tolerant Networks services. In this perspective, the paper provides an insight of the most relevant technological issues to guarantee a proper Quality of Service level between an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle communicating with a remote data center through a satellite link. Besides, this work also evaluates the coverage of such a concept in a metropolitan area.