机载网络的结构和算法
Architecture and Algorithms for an Airborne Network
摘要：
美国空军目前正在开发一个机载网络（AN），为执行任务的战斗机提供支持。AN连续运行所需的可靠性很难通过完全无基础设施的移动自组织网络来实现。在本文中，我们首先提出了一个架构的AN机载网络平台（ANPs -飞机，无人机和卫星）形成的AN的骨干。在这种体系结构中，ANP可以被看作是移动基站，而执行任务的战斗机可以被看作是移动客户端。执行任务的战斗机通过一个称为空中走廊的空间。AN设计的目标是形成具有两个属性的具有ANP的骨干网络：（i）骨干网络始终保持连接，即使网络的拓扑随着ANP的移动而改变，以及（ii）空中走廊的整个3D空间始终处于连续移动的ANP的无线电覆盖之下。除了提出一个AN的架构，本文的贡献包括，开发一种算法，找到速度和传输范围的ANP，使动态变化的骨干网络保持连接在所有时间，开发一种路由算法，确保连接之间的源-目的地节点对与最少数量的路径切换，给定空中走廊的尺寸和与ANP相关联的覆盖范围的半径，开发一种算法，该算法找到在所有时间提供空中走廊的完全覆盖所需的最少数量的ANP，开发一种算法，该算法在所有时间提供对空中走廊的连接覆盖，以及开发一个可视化工具，描述ANPs的移动模式和由此产生的骨干网络的动态图和覆盖体积。
英文摘要：
The U.S. Air Force currently is in the process of developing an Airborne Network (AN) to provide support to its combat aircrafts on a mission. The reliability needed for continuous operation of an AN is difficult to achieve through completely infrastructure-less mobile ad hoc networks. In this paper we first propose an architecture for an AN where airborne networking platforms (ANPs - aircrafts, UAVs and satellites) form the backbone of the AN. In this architecture, the ANPs can be viewed as mobile base stations and the combat aircrafts on a mission as mobile clients. The combat aircrafts on a mission move through a space called air corridor. The goal of the AN design is to form a backbone network with the ANPs with two properties: (i) the backbone network remains connected at all times, even though the topology of the network changes with the movement of the ANPs, and (ii) the entire 3D space of the air corridor is under radio coverage at all times by the continuously moving ANPs. In addition to proposing an architecture for an AN, the contributions of the paper include, development of an algorithm that finds the velocity and transmission range of the ANPs so that the dynamically changing backbone network remains connected at all times, development of a routing algorithm that ensures a connection between the source-destination node pair with the fewest number of path switching, given the dimensions of the air corridor and the radius of the coverage sphere associated with an ANP, development of an algorithm that finds the fewest number of ANPs required to provide complete coverage of the air corridor at all times, development of an algorithm that provides connected-coverage to the air corridor at all times, and development of a visualization tool that depicts the movement patterns of the ANPs and the resulting dynamic graph and the coverage volume of the backbone network.
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