Performance Study on Seamless DA2GC for Aircraft Passengers toward 5G

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Figo: Mobility-Aware In-Flight Service Assignment and Reconfiguration with Deep Q-Learning

“…An interesting observation in Fig. 3a is when we compare scenarios with different |J | (i.e., scenarios (1,5), (2,6), (3,7), and (4,8)). In these scenarios, the objective function value is generally lower on average for |J | = 6 compared to |J | = 3.…”

“…Recently, broadband Direct-Air-to-Ground (DA2G) has brought certain advances in the A2G communication [1]. With this method, the flights are directly connected to the base stations (BSs) located on the ground network (See Fig.…”

“…As DA2G BSs are distributed through the continents, the DA2G communication can be offered over the mainland, but not over the oceans. Nevertheless, the main advantage is the easy and cheap deployment of DA2G BSs with a high capacity and low link delay, compared to SC [1]. Thus, considering the different characteristics of A2G connections, routing the traffic from a flight to the selected DC becomes another important challenge.…”

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

“…Existing aircraft connectivity solutions can be broadly categorized into two classes [2], [3]: satellite to aircraft communication (S2AC) and direct aircraft to ground communication (DA2GC). At the time of writing in-flight connectivity of aircraft mainly depends on satellites.…”

“…To circumvent the shortcomings of S2AC, DA2GC provides an alternative for providing low-latency, high-rate transmissions to aircraft [2]. The European Aviation Network (EAN) has been designed to deliver up to 75 Mbps per cell by combining an S-band satellite and the 4G LTE mobile terrestrial network [5].…”