**6. Discussion**

Simulation 1 under the condition of *K* = 0.316 shows that 97.7% of information is effectively transmitted by time step 30 (which means 30 s after the start of the communication). If we remind ε−0.316 = 0.729, we can say that the theoretical arrival rate of information with a distance of one in this model is 72.9%, while by this method, the rate can be improved to 97.7% (meaning 134% improvement) within 30 s, and this improvement can be achieved without controlling intervals of the aircrafts.

By the outcomes of Simulation 2, the total amount of hops necessary for information transmission is likely to decrease with a rise in the quantity of time steps. In this particular operation, its anticipated attenuation term *dijk* is set to less than 1, which means that attenuation is intentionally performed.

As discussed above, even in a communication environment with extremely small reliability, it's apparent that highly dependable communication is possible through the dispersed nature of the aircrafts in the airspace. Under the circumstances of this particular simulation, 97.7% of information was correctly shared among the aircrafts with 30 s of interaction. As the datagram size is no more than 224 [octet], aside from error correction in the transport layer, the data rate under a guaranteed transmission rate of 98% is approximately 60 bit/s in the worst case. (In the very best situation, the theoretical value is approximately 1.8 kbit/s).

Even though this appears to be an incredibly narrow communication band for contemporary wireless communication, it's a feasible numerical value for missioncritical inter-aircraft. For communication which is not mission critical, we are able to consider satellite internet as a complementary protocol.
