Effect of Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles on Data Transmission Considering DTN-Based V2V Communication in Urban Area

In this paper, we present the performance of multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication in an urban environment. We employ the Epidemic protocol as the communication method to evaluate the dissemination of bundle messages by multiple UAVs and regular vehicles. We consider the urban grid and Tenjin area in Fukuoka City, where UAVs are assumed to move in a vertical direction randomly. From the simulation results, we found that the presence or absence of a UAV had a significant impact on the message delivery probability, especially when the number of vehicles was less than 90. Also, the use of UAVs improves message reachability and storage consumption on complex roads.