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The capacity of aeronautical ad-hoc networks

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Currently aeronautical communications are extremely limited by the Aeronautical Telecommunications Network standard, which does not support the inter-aircraft communications directly. To this end, we consider an aeronautical ad-hoc network based on a single flight path, whereby the aircrafts in the cruise stage can communicate with each other through multi-hop relays without the aid of ground stations. Due to the special topology of this network model, existing results based on the conventional mobile ad-hoc networks are not applicable for determining its capacity scaling law. In this paper, we prove the upper bound on the per-node capacity and construct a simple transmission scheduling scheme to achieve the lower bound.

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  1. The separation of two neighboring height levels is about 0.3 km except for some special cases where the separation is either 0.5 or 0.6 km.

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Acknowledgments

The work was partially supported by National Key Basic Research Program of China under the grant 2010CB731803, by NSF of China under Grant 61174127, 61371085 and 60932003, and by Key Laboratory of Wireless Sensor Network and Communication, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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    Jianshu Yan, Cailian Chen & Xinping Guan

  2. School of Information Security Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, People’s Republic of China

    Cunqing Hua

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Yan, J., Hua, C., Chen, C. et al. The capacity of aeronautical ad-hoc networks. Wireless Netw 20, 2123–2130 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-014-0737-7

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