Distributed Resource Allocation and Load Balancing in Air-to-Ground Networks

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Beitragende

Abstract

Internet connectivity on aircraft is becoming more and more popular, while its performance is lacking behind the offer on ground. In order to provide a high throughput to aircraft, an air-to-ground network combining direct air-to-ground, satellite and air-to-air connectivity is needed. To provide a fair throughput allocation to aircraft, we define a 5G-based air-to-ground architecture and introduce a heuristic algorithm to fairly distribute the capacity among aircraft. We evaluate the algorithm in an European scenario using real aircraft traces. We show that our algorithm can fairly distribute the throughput per aircraft. During high-aircraft-density times, the maximum difference to the ideally distributed throughput is only 3.9%. Additionally, we introduce a weighted-fair allocation, corresponding to the aircraft size, to distribute the throughput according to the number of users per aircraft.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelMobiWac 2020 - Proceedings of the 18th ACM Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access
Herausgeber (Verlag)Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Seiten99-103
Seitenumfang5
ISBN (elektronisch)9781450381192
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 16 Nov. 2020
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Konferenz

Titel18th ACM Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access, MobiWac 2020
Dauer16 - 20 November 2020
StadtAlicante
LandSpanien

Externe IDs

ORCID /0000-0001-8469-9573/work/161891196

Schlagworte

Schlagwörter

  • air-to-ground networks, air-to-ground throughput, aircraft connectivity