A geographic routing strategy for north Atlantic in-flight internet access via airborne mesh networking

Authors:
Daniel Medina;Felix Hoffmann;Francesco Rossetto;Carl-Herbert Rokitansky
Affiliations:
Institute of Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Center, Wessling, Germany;Institute of Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Center, Wessling, Germany;Institute of Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Center, Wessling, Germany;Department of Computer Science, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Venue:
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Year:
2012

Citing 10
Cited 0

Performance Analysis and Optimization with the Power-Series Algorithm

Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems, Joint Tutorial Papers of Performance '93 and Sigmetrics '93
SPEED: A Stateless Protocol for Real-Time Communication in Sensor Networks

ICDCS '03 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
A cone-based distributed topology-control algorithm for wireless multi-hop networks

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Maintaining Gateway Connectivity in Multi-hop Ad hoc Networks

LCN '05 Proceedings of the The IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks 30th Anniversary
Antenna Theory: Analysis and Design

Antenna Theory: Analysis and Design
A link scheduling and ad hoc networking approach using directional antennas

MILCOM'03 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE conference on Military communications - Volume I
A SURVEY OF VOID HANDLING TECHNIQUES FOR GEOGRAPHIC ROUTING IN WIRELESS NETWORKS

IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
A survey on wireless mesh networks

IEEE Communications Magazine
The Global In-Flight Internet

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
A survey on position-based routing in mobile ad hoc networks

IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

The Airborne Internet is a vision of a large-scale multihop wireless mesh network consisting of commercial passenger aircraft connected via long-range highly directional air-to-air radio links. We propose a geographic load sharing strategy to fully exploit the total air-to-ground capacity available at any given time. When forwarding packets for a given destination, a node considers not one but a set of next-hop candidates and spreads traffic among them based on queue dynamics. In addition, load balancing is performed among Internet Gateways by using a congestion-aware handover strategy. Our simulations using realistic North Atlantic air traffic demonstrate the ability of such a load sharing mechanism to approach the maximum theoretical throughput in the network.