Drone base stations (DBSs) have recently gained wide popularity as a possible solution to provide wireless connectivity in a variety of scenarios, for example, in inaccessible terrains such as connectivity over vast areas of a water body or in rural areas where the physical deployment of base stations is not feasible at the moment, also in the case of terrestrial infrastructure failure where DBSs can be rapidly deployed to re-establish communication channel. In this paper we propose an algorithm for controlling the motion of the DBSs which maximizes the number of DBS to mobile ground node connections. The overlap extent between the drones is limited to reduce the count of redundant connections. The overall approach aims at minimizing the number of drones required to be deployed in a given region by maximizing connectivity per drone.

翻译：最近,无人机基地台(DBS)作为一种在各种情况下提供无线连接的可行解决办法,最近受到广泛欢迎,因为这是一种可能的解决方案,可在多种情况下提供无线连接,例如在无法进入的地形,例如一个水体广大地区的连通性,或者在目前无法实际部署基地台的农村地区,同样在地面基础设施失灵的情况下,可以迅速部署DBS来重建通信频道。在本文件中,我们提出了控制DBS运动的算法,以最大限度地增加DBS到移动地面节点连接的数量。无人机之间的重叠程度仅限于减少冗余连接的数量。总体做法的目的是通过最大限度地实现每次无人机的连通性,最大限度地减少在特定区域部署的无人机数量。