Cognitive Radio for Aeronautical Communications: A Survey

Jacob, Ponnu; Sirigina, Rajendra Prasad; Madhukumar, A. S.; Prasad, Vinod A.

doi:10.1109/access.2016.2570802

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“…However, robust spectrum sensing is required in aeronautical communications, since packet collisions in spectrum usage may lead to catastrophic consequences during landing/takeoff [234]. Thus the probability of missed detection must tend to zero.…”

Section: Optimization Metricsmentioning

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Aeronautical $Ad~Hoc$ Networking for the Internet-Above-the-Clouds

Chen²,

et al. 2019

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The engineering vision of relying on the "smart sky" for supporting air traffic and the "Internet above the clouds" for in-flight entertainment has become imperative for the future aircraft industry. Aeronautical ad hoc Networking (AANET) constitutes a compelling concept for providing broadband communications above clouds by extending the coverage of Air-to-Ground (A2G) networks to oceanic and remote airspace via autonomous and self-configured wireless networking amongst commercial passenger airplanes. The AANET concept may be viewed as a new member of the family of Mobile ad hoc Networks (MANETs) in action above the clouds. However, AANETs have more dynamic topologies, larger and more variable geographical network size, stricter security requirements and more hostile transmission conditions. These specific characteristics lead to more grave challenges in aircraft mobility modeling, aeronautical channel modeling and interference mitigation as well as in network scheduling and routing. This paper provides an overview of AANET solutions by characterizing the associated scenarios, requirements and challenges. Explicitly, the research addressing the key techniques of AANETs, such as their mobility models, network scheduling and routing, security and interference are reviewed. Furthermore, we also identify the remaining challenges associated with developing AANETs and present their prospective solutions as well as open issues. The design framework of AANETs and the key technical issues are investigated along with some recent research results. Furthermore, a range of performance metrics optimized in designing AANETs and a number of representative multi-objective optimization algorithms are outlined.

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Section: Optimization Metricsmentioning

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Aeronautical $Ad~Hoc$ Networking for the Internet-Above-the-Clouds

Chen²,

et al. 2019

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“…There are detailed investigations in papers [106][107][108] on employing cognitive radio technique in UAS networks. A comprehensive survey of cognitive radio for aeronautical communications is provided in [109]. They also discuss the significant performance improvement that cognitive radio brings for UASs.…”

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Potential Data Link Candidates for Civilian Unmanned Aircraft Systems: A Survey

Zolanvari

Jain

Salman

2020

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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This survey studies the potential data link candidates for unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs). There has been tremendous growth in different applications of UAVs such as lifesaving and rescue missions, commercial use, recreations, etc. Unlike the traditional wireless communications, the data links for these systems do not have any general standardized framework yet to ensure safe co-existence of UAVs with other flying vehicles. This motivated us to provide a comprehensive survey of potential data link technologies available for UAVs. Our goal is to study the current trends and available candidates and carry out a comprehensive comparison among them. The contribution of this survey is to highlight the strength and weakness of the current data link options and their suitability to satisfy the UAVs communication requirements. Satellite links, cellular technologies, Wi-Fi and several similar wireless technologies are studied thoroughly in this paper. We also focus on several available promising standards that can be modified for these data links. Then, we discuss standard-related organizations that are working actively in the area of civilian unmanned systems. Finally, we bring up some future challenges in this area with several potential solutions to motivate further research work. Index Terms-Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), unmanned aircraft vehicle (UAV), civilian applications, data link, satellite communication, cellular communication, aviation standards, standard bodies, future challenges. SATCOM Provider ATC Pilot Cellular Provider Satellite UAV Cellular Tower Fig. 1 2 2) Network RequirementsThere are several survey papers discussing the requirements for UAS data link such as [2], and [9][10][11][12][13][14]. For example, the requirements for the UASs based on four different areas of missions, communication networks, communication data links, navigation, and surveillance are discussed in [2]. Several detailed discussions about the communication data link requirements such as range, velocity, latency, reliability, availability, integrity, security, and bit rate are provided. As another instance, a survey of UAVs communication requirements has been studied in [9]. These requirements are based on four categories of UAV applications (i.e., search and rescue, area coverage, delivery/transportation, and construction). Moreover, the important requirements and considerations regarding the network layer of UAV communications have been discussed in [14]. 3) Channel ModelingChannel modeling must be studied for designing and evaluating proper UAV data links for different applications. There have been several research work and surveys on channel modeling for UAV communications, such as [15][16][17][18]. For instance, a comprehensive survey on channel modeling for UAV communications is provided in [15]. Different channel modeling approaches along with the associated challenges have been studied. 4) Our ContributionWe have studied the existing survey papers on the aforementioned issues related to the UAV data links. In this s...

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“…• WSNs [76]- [81] • IoT [82] • Cellular communications [42], [83]- [90] • WiMax [91] • Aeronautical communications [92] • Ad Hoc networks [93] • Satellite communications [94] • Space communications [95] • UAV [96] • Vehicular Ad Hoc networks [97]- [100]10…”

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Multimedia Communication over Cognitive Radio Networks from QoS/QoE Perspective; A Comprehensive Survey

Piran¹

2020

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The stringent requirements of wireless multimedia transmission lead to very high radio spectrum solicitation. Although the radio spectrum is considered as a scarce resource, the issue with spectrum availability is not scarcity, but the inefficient utilization. Unique characteristics of cognitive radio (CR) such as flexibility, adaptability, and interoperability, particularly have contributed to it being the optimum technological candidate to alleviate the issue of spectrum scarcity for multimedia communications. However, multimedia communications over CR networks (MCRNs) as a bandwidth-hungry, delay-sensitive, and loss-tolerant service, exposes several severe challenges specially to guarantee quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE). As a result, to date, different schemes based on source and channel coding, multicast, and distributed streaming, have been examined to improve the QoS/QoE in MCRNs. In this paper, we survey QoS/QoE provisioning schemes in MCRNs. We first discuss the basic concepts of multimedia communication, CRNs, QoS and QoE. Then, we present the advantages of utilizing CR for multimedia services and outline the stringent QoS and QoE requirements in MCRNs. Next, we classify the critical challenges for QoS/QoE provisioning in MCRNs including spectrum sensing, resource allocation management, network fluctuations management, latency management, and energy consumption management. Then, we survey the corresponding feasible solutions for each challenge highlighting performance issues, strengths, and weaknesses. Furthermore, we discuss several important open research problems and provide some avenues for future research.

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Cognitive Radio for Aeronautical Communications: A Survey

Cited by 83 publications

References 115 publications

Aeronautical $Ad~Hoc$ Networking for the Internet-Above-the-Clouds

Aeronautical $Ad~Hoc$ Networking for the Internet-Above-the-Clouds

Potential Data Link Candidates for Civilian Unmanned Aircraft Systems: A Survey

Multimedia Communication over Cognitive Radio Networks from QoS/QoE Perspective; A Comprehensive Survey

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