Analysis of Topology Algorithms for Commercial Airborne Networks

Newton, Ben; Aikat, Jay; Jeffay, Kevin

doi:10.1109/icnp.2014.60

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“…Our fully distributed topology control protocol builds on the results presented in our previous work [11]. Our implementation is similar to Localized Tree-based Reliable Topology (LTRT) [23], but augmented to honor degree constraints.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/ For our research we propose using commercial aircraft as the principal components of an airborne network [11]. Figure 1 shows what the topology of this large-scale airborne network might look like.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…But how should the physical topology of this network be determined? Unlike traditional wireless networks, where the network topology can be implicitly controlled by adjusting transmission range [12], our network of directional links must employ explicit topology control [11]. Some protocol must manage which set of neighboring aircraft (limited in size by the number of links) each node should connect with, and how and when to make changes to these connections, as the nodes move.…”

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Simulating large-scale airborne networks with ns-3

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Jeffay

2015

Proceedings of the 2015 Workshop on Ns-3

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Large-scale airborne networks, which connect airborne nodes with high-bandwidth communication links are being actively pursued commercially . We propose utilizing thousands of operational passenger and cargo aircraft as the principal components of an airborne network which could provide high-speed Internet to passengers on-board and on the ground. To simulate such a network we have augmented the ns-3 network simulator with a model for ingesting and processing aircraft position information, a steerable directional antenna model, a wireless point-to-point channel and associated net devices, and a distributed topology control application to manage the topology of the mesh network. We describe our implementation of these models and some tools for visualizing airborne networks. Using a simulation of a large airborne network, covering the United States, we perform experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of using the Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR) to route network traffic. Our simulations lead us to conclude that OLSR is likely not a good fit for our envisioned network.

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2015

Proceedings of the 2015 Workshop on Ns-3

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“…The prospect of using FSO in the aeronautical context lies in stratospheric communication networks of aircraft or aeronautical ad-hoc networks (AAHN, e.g. [1] [2]), which could provide a throughput far beyond what is available today. Data transmission both in-between aircraft, and to the ground via multi-hop transmission, may be exploited for different types of applications and services.…”

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confidence: 99%