An Efficient Intranet Networking Solution for Airborne Networks

Ghanadan, Reza; Gu, John; Hsu, J.; Sadosuk, Greg; Khuu, Phong C.

doi:10.1109/milcom.2006.302348

Cited by 10 publications

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“…In recent years, there's been some work to define routing protocols specifically designed to operate in airborne networks [15], [16], [17], [18]. These protocols have attempted to utilize the relatively predictable nature of airborne networks to anticipate outages and redirect traffic as necessary.…”

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confidence: 99%

Characterizing Routing with Radio-to-Router Information in a Heterogeneous Airborne Network

Cheng¹,

Coyle²,

McGarry³

et al. 2013

IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.

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The current generation of long-range, high capacity, military radios are stove-piped systems that work well in a homogeneous environment, but lack interoperability with other radio systems. Each radio provides a subset of disparate link information in non-standard interfaces and has built-in home-grown routers running different routing protocols. In a heterogeneous radio system airborne environment, wireless link characteristics change rapidly, often requiring direct link feedback from the radio to make routing decisions. In recent years, much work has been done in developing a common radio-to-router interface (R2RI) that standardizes a subset of per-link information to pass to the network layer for use in dynamic MANET routing. While simulations and emulation tests can provide a baseline for how systems might perform, field-tests are crucial to demonstrate capabilities in real-world operating environments. In this paper, we present measurement results from a field test involving several air and ground assets with various radio systems that test an implementation of RFC4938, a radio-to-router interface protocol, and its interaction with a dynamic MANET routing protocol. The assets formed a high capacity, dynamically routed aerial IP backbone made of heterogeneous radio technologies over 250 nautical miles (Nm), allowing the passing of military traffic.Index Terms-Radio-to-router, heterogeneous airborne network.

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Section: Related Work Surveymentioning

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Characterizing Routing with Radio-to-Router Information in a Heterogeneous Airborne Network

Cheng¹,

Coyle²,

McGarry³

et al. 2013

IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.

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“…A novel wireless intranet networking protocol providing the flexibility and efficiency needed to operate in airborne environments is illustrated in [13]. The authors describe the driving networking requirements and trade offs, protocol architecture and measured and simulated performance.…”

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MANET Approaches for Airborne Networks: A Survey

Kulla

Sakamoto

Ikeda

et al. 2013

2013 16th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems

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An Airborne Network (AN) is defined as a form of MANET, containing at least one airborne node. But, the characteristics of the AN differ from the MANET significantly. The nodes of the AN are connected by much higher bandwidth links. The airborne nodes also have much greater line-of-sight distance that increases their possible connections. In this work, we present a survey on some aspects of ANs. We show the differences between the two network types and summarize some of the main works on AN research.

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“…AHDR is a proactive mesh routing protocol described in [6] and [7] which operates at layer three in the META-MANET implementation. As such, ARQ in layer two is not aware of the forwarded packets, and therefore each ARQ pair is managing a single hop: this flow exercises three separate ARQ transmitter/receiver pairs which are independently synchronized and managed.…”

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Automatic repeat request (ARQ) over TDMA-based mesh network

Claypool

McNeill

2008

MILCOM 2008 - 2008 IEEE Military Communications Conference

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The use of automatic repeat-request (ARQ) over a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) presents unique challenges in handling signaling, connection identification, and implementation. This paper describes the implementation of a selective-repeat ARQ protocol in a mesh MANET called Mesh-Enabled Tactical Adaptive -MANET (META-MANET). The mesh MAC operates over the 802.16d physical (PHY) layer. The implementation of this ARQ protocol follows the specification described in the IEEE 802.16 standard with unique adaptations for mesh operations. Our implementation preserves the opportunity for future interworking with standards-based devices to the greatest extent possible. We hypothesized that adding ARQ would improve throughput and reduce loss rates. We present the results of lab testing of radio implementations of the ARQ-enhanced META-MANET protocol in RFcabled with emulated loss and mobile outdoor wireless environments. This testing is analyzed for topologies of two nodes to eight nodes and the emulation of various dynamic mobile topologies across terrain and obstructions. The impact to application traffic packet loss rate, throughput, latency, and multi-hop throughput are analyzed and presented. Several controlled scenarios were performed, with and without ARQ, to compare the performance of our implementation. We found that the implementation of ARQ over the mesh yielded significantly improved throughput, as perceived by the application, under many conditions. Overall, this study demonstrates the feasibility of implementing a standardized ARQ mechanism over a mesh topology in high-bandwidth environments with multiple nodes in a moving topology.

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An Efficient Intranet Networking Solution for Airborne Networks

Cited by 10 publications

References 4 publications

Characterizing Routing with Radio-to-Router Information in a Heterogeneous Airborne Network

Characterizing Routing with Radio-to-Router Information in a Heterogeneous Airborne Network

MANET Approaches for Airborne Networks: A Survey

Automatic repeat request (ARQ) over TDMA-based mesh network

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