Abstract
Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) have seen significant growth as a research topic in recent years. as opposed to a traditional network with a fixed node infrastructure, the nodes in a MANET are free to move and arbitrarily organize themselves while maintaining wireless communication with each other. the major benefit of MANETs is the lack of reliance on a fixed network infrastructure. the challenge is to dynamically route traffic through a set of mobile network nodes. MANETs represent a novel solution for providing internet access in aircraft. Currently, each aircraft maintains its own gateway to the internet using expensive satellite data links. a MANET solution would allow multiple aircraft to communicate with each other in-flight and share an internet gateway, thus reducing the user cost for internet service. This is what we call an "Aerial Ad-Hoc Network." Significant research has been focused on protocols that can efficiently route traffic in this dynamic environment of mobile network nodes. This paper focuses on the evaluation of the market potential for an aerial ad-hoc network. the benefits of low-cost internet access could grow the in-flight internet user base. However, the benefits are balanced with greater network failures due to bandwidth overload conditions. Each aircraft carries hundreds of people, and therefore the number of internet users across a group of aircraft sharing an internet gateway could easily overload the network. This paper presents a Monte-Carlo simulation that characterizes the network failure rates that could be expected in an aerial ad-hoc network. in addition, we construct an agent-Based model of the aerial ad-hoc network market. This simulation is used to determine the steady state user levels that can be expected for the system given individual user satisfaction with the internet service. © 2011 IEEE.
Recommended Citation
C. B. Watkins and C. H. Dagli, "Agent-Based Model of Aerial Ad-hoc Network Market Potential," AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference - Proceedings, article no. 6096151, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Dec 2011.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1109/DASC.2011.6096151
Department(s)
Engineering Management and Systems Engineering
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
978-161284797-9
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Article - Conference proceedings
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English
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Publication Date
28 Dec 2011
