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At Airbus, an architecture for an ad-hoc network amongst flying platforms, e.g., commercial aircraft, satellites, high altitude platforms, has been developed. Since centralized decision-making for building the network topology becomes impracticable in ad-hoc networks with many mobile participants, the network architecture is based on a decentralized collaborative decision-making process. Agent-based modelling and simulation was used to support the design of the overall ad-hoc network architecture, its core decision-making algorithm, and the required hardware for laser communication. This paper describes the implementation, evaluation, and results of these activities using the agent-based modelling and simulation tool Repast Simphony.
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The authors wish to thank the project partner Reuniwatt SAS, in particular Olivier Liandrat, for providing the volumetric cloud data used in the presented work.
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Helle, P., Feo-Arenis, S., Strobel, C., Shortt, K. (2022). Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation of Decision-Making in Flying Ad-Hoc Networks. In: Dignum, F., Mathieu, P., Corchado, J.M., De La Prieta, F. (eds) Advances in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Complex Systems Simulation. The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13616. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18192-4_20
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