Minimum-Delay Routing for Integrated Aeronautical Ad Hoc Networks Relying on Real Flight Data in the North-Atlantic Region

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. The goal of the paper is to assess the performance of the cl...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology
Main Authors: Jingjing Cui, Dong Liu, Jiankang Zhang, Halil Yetgin, Soon Xin Ng, Robert Maunder, Lajos Hanzo
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2021
Subjects:
Aeronautical <named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" content-type="math" xlink:type="simple"> $ad hoc$ </named-content> networks (AANETs)
in-flight connection
shortest-path routing
real historical flight data
Transportation engineering
TA1001-1280
Transportation and communications
HE1-9990
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1109/OJVT.2021.3089543
https://doaj.org/article/2163ca0a5e6c4441aa0c59af77af77f2
Description
Summary: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. The goal of the paper is to assess the performance of the classic shortest-path routing algorithm in the context of the real flight data collected in the North-Atlantic Region. Specifically, 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.

Similar Items