This article has been accepted for inclusion in a future issue of this journal. Content is final as presented, with the exception of pagination. IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING 1 A Geographic Routing Strategy for North Atlantic In-Flight Internet Acce

• Main Authors: Daniel Medina, Felix Hoffmann, Francesco Rossetto, Carl-herbert Rokitansky
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.398.9029; http://elib.dlr.de/72149/1/Daniel-TNET-A_Geographic_Routing_Strategy_for_North_Atlantic_In_Flight_Internet_Access_Via_Airborne_Mesh_Networking.pdf

Abstract—The Airborne Internet is a vision of a large-scale multihop wireless mesh network consisting of commercial passenger aircraft connected via long-range highly directional air-to-air radio links. We propose a geographic load sharing strategy to fully exploit the total air-to-ground capacity available at any given time. When forwarding packets for a given destination, a node considers not one but a set of next-hop candidates and spreads traffic among them based on queue dynamics. In addition, load balancing is performed among Internet Gateways by using a congestion-aware handover strategy. Our simulations using realistic North Atlantic air traffic demonstrate the ability of such a load sharing mechanism to approach the maximum theoretical throughput in the network. Index Terms—Airborne Internet, directional antennas, geographic routing, load balancing, STDMA, wireless mesh networks. I.