Minimum-Delay Routing for Integrated Aeronautical Ad Hoc Networks Relying on Passenger-Planes in the North-Atlantic Region

• Main Authors: Cui, Jingjing, Liu, Dong, Zhang, Jiankang, Yetgin, Halil, Ng, Soon Xin, Hanzo, Lajos
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: arXiv 2020
• Subjects: Information Theory cs.IT; Networking and Internet Architecture cs.NI; FOS Computer and information sciences; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2010.08315; https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.08315

Relying on multi-hop communication techniques, aeronautical ad hoc networks (AANETs) seamlessly integrate ground base stations (BSs) and satellites into aircraft communications for enhancing the on-demand connectivity of planes in the air. In this integrated AANET context we investigate the shortest-path routing problem with the objective of minimizing the total delay of the in-flight connection from the ground BS subject to certain minimum-rate constraints for all selected links in support of low-latency and high-speed services. Inspired by the best-first search and priority queue concepts, we model the problem formulated by a weighted digraph and find the optimal route based on the shortest-path algorithm. Our simulation results demonstrate that aircraft-aided multi-hop communications are capable of reducing the total delay of satellite communications, when relying on real historical flight data. : 13 pages