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

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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

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMobiWac 2020 - Proceedings of the 18th ACM Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages99-103
Number of pages5
ISBN (electronic)9781450381192
Publication statusPublished - 16 Nov 2020
Peer-reviewedYes

Conference

Title18th ACM Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access, MobiWac 2020
Duration16 - 20 November 2020
CityAlicante
CountrySpain

External IDs

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

Keywords

Keywords

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