Path planning for mobile DCs in future cities

摘要

In future smart-cities, public transportation vehicles are planned ton serve as data couriers (DCs) in order to exchange massive amounts ofn data chunks. In this research, we study the path planning problem forn these DCs while optimizing their counts and their total traveledn distances. As the total collected load on a given DC route cannot exceedn its storage capacity, it is important to decide on the size of then exchanged data-packets (images, videos, etc.) and the sequence of th