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Airborne networks are among some of the most challenging communication environments for protocol design and validation. Three dimensional and highly dynamic in nature, airborne network links are generally difficult to simulate accurately and often expensive to recreate in field experiments. The physical characteristics of the data links in these kinds of networks are not only influenced by the usual environmental factors and interferences, but also by the frequent changes in the relative angles and positions between antennas, shadowing effects of the airframe, non-uniform ground effects and other factors. In this work we summarize our research for the development of mLab, a hybrid emulation environment for airborne networks that combines theoretical path loss models with statistical data-driven models to create a low-cost, high fidelity, specialized emulation environment for the development, evaluation, and validation of protocols and algorithms for airborne wireless networks.
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Carvalho, M. et al. (2012). A Hybrid Emulation Environment for Airborne Wireless Networks. In: Byrski, A., Oplatková, Z., Carvalho, M., Kisiel-Dorohinicki, M. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Modelling and Simulation. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 416. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28888-3_5
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