Radio communications system eith randomly scattered, automatically organizable relay stations

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A fully distributed disposable, self-organizing, independently powered communications system capable of providing, a radio-communications channel in environments that may prove dangerous or inaccessible to humans and that may be hostile to communications systems, comprises a number of randomly scattered self-contained relay transceiver stations which automatically organize themselves to form a relay chain capable of transporting radio messages between two user terminal stations as long as the distance between the user stations is bridged by the relay stations in line-of-sight proximity with each other.