Geographic Load Share Routing in the Airborne Internet

The North Atlantic Corridor constitutes the most interesting scenario for a real deployment of airborne mesh networking technology to provide faster and cheaper inflight internet connectivity during oceanic flight than is currently possible via satellite. In the so-called Airborne Internet, arguably...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Medina, Daniel
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2011
Subjects:
Online Access:http://elib.dlr.de/81325/
http://elib.dlr.de/81325/1/44118_Medina_a5.pdf
id ftdlr:oai:elib.dlr.de:81325
record_format openpolar
spelling ftdlr:oai:elib.dlr.de:81325 2023-05-15T17:34:53+02:00 Geographic Load Share Routing in the Airborne Internet Medina, Daniel 2011-07 application/pdf http://elib.dlr.de/81325/ http://elib.dlr.de/81325/1/44118_Medina_a5.pdf en eng http://elib.dlr.de/81325/1/44118_Medina_a5.pdf Medina, Daniel (2011) Geographic Load Share Routing in the Airborne Internet. Dissertation, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg. Nachrichtensysteme Hochschulschrift PeerReviewed 2011 ftdlr 2016-03-28T21:00:51Z The North Atlantic Corridor constitutes the most interesting scenario for a real deployment of airborne mesh networking technology to provide faster and cheaper inflight internet connectivity during oceanic flight than is currently possible via satellite. In the so-called Airborne Internet, arguably the largest and most dynamic wireless mesh network ever envisioned, all internet traffic enters/leaves the airborne mesh network via a time-varying number of short-lived air-to-ground (A2G) links, which consequently pose a capacity bottleneck, limiting the maximum data throughput that can be offered to each user (aircraft). Thus, it is essential that the routing strategy keeps a balance between the capacity and traffic load of each A2G link. Achieving this balance with minimal overhead in a highly mobile network where link capacity and traffic demand are constantly fluctuating is a challenging task. Our proposed solution, Geographic Load Share Routing (GLSR), requires only the exchange of the aircraft’s position, and reacts quickly to fluctuations in traffic demand and link capacity by using instantaneous buffer size information local to the forwarding node. Our simulation results using realistic transatlantic air traffic underscore the importance of a load balancing strategy for the Airborne Internet and demonstrate GLSR’s ability to share the total A2G bandwidth fairly among all airborne users. By exploiting the full capacity available at each access point and adaptively resizing their geographic jurisdiction to account for congestion, GLSR achieves a per-user throughput close to 90% of the theoretical maximum. This is in stark contrast to the performance of shortest path routing, with a throughput below 20% of the maximum. Thesis North Atlantic German Aerospace Center: elib - DLR electronic library Access Point ENVELOPE(-63.783,-63.783,-64.833,-64.833)
institution Open Polar
collection German Aerospace Center: elib - DLR electronic library
op_collection_id ftdlr
language English
topic Nachrichtensysteme
spellingShingle Nachrichtensysteme
Medina, Daniel
Geographic Load Share Routing in the Airborne Internet
topic_facet Nachrichtensysteme
description The North Atlantic Corridor constitutes the most interesting scenario for a real deployment of airborne mesh networking technology to provide faster and cheaper inflight internet connectivity during oceanic flight than is currently possible via satellite. In the so-called Airborne Internet, arguably the largest and most dynamic wireless mesh network ever envisioned, all internet traffic enters/leaves the airborne mesh network via a time-varying number of short-lived air-to-ground (A2G) links, which consequently pose a capacity bottleneck, limiting the maximum data throughput that can be offered to each user (aircraft). Thus, it is essential that the routing strategy keeps a balance between the capacity and traffic load of each A2G link. Achieving this balance with minimal overhead in a highly mobile network where link capacity and traffic demand are constantly fluctuating is a challenging task. Our proposed solution, Geographic Load Share Routing (GLSR), requires only the exchange of the aircraft’s position, and reacts quickly to fluctuations in traffic demand and link capacity by using instantaneous buffer size information local to the forwarding node. Our simulation results using realistic transatlantic air traffic underscore the importance of a load balancing strategy for the Airborne Internet and demonstrate GLSR’s ability to share the total A2G bandwidth fairly among all airborne users. By exploiting the full capacity available at each access point and adaptively resizing their geographic jurisdiction to account for congestion, GLSR achieves a per-user throughput close to 90% of the theoretical maximum. This is in stark contrast to the performance of shortest path routing, with a throughput below 20% of the maximum.
format Thesis
author Medina, Daniel
author_facet Medina, Daniel
author_sort Medina, Daniel
title Geographic Load Share Routing in the Airborne Internet
title_short Geographic Load Share Routing in the Airborne Internet
title_full Geographic Load Share Routing in the Airborne Internet
title_fullStr Geographic Load Share Routing in the Airborne Internet
title_full_unstemmed Geographic Load Share Routing in the Airborne Internet
title_sort geographic load share routing in the airborne internet
publishDate 2011
url http://elib.dlr.de/81325/
http://elib.dlr.de/81325/1/44118_Medina_a5.pdf
long_lat ENVELOPE(-63.783,-63.783,-64.833,-64.833)
geographic Access Point
geographic_facet Access Point
genre North Atlantic
genre_facet North Atlantic
op_relation http://elib.dlr.de/81325/1/44118_Medina_a5.pdf
Medina, Daniel (2011) Geographic Load Share Routing in the Airborne Internet. Dissertation, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg.
_version_ 1766133865296953344