Airborne network evaluation: challenges and high fidelity emulation solution

Author

Kyung Kwak ; Sagduyu, Yalin ; Yackoski, Justin ; Azimi-Sadjadi, Babak ; Namazi, Ali ; Deng, Jiansong ; Li, Jie

Volume

52

Issue

10

fYear

2014

fDate

41913

Firstpage

30

Lastpage

36

Abstract

The future AN is envisioned as an IP-based hierarchical network with heterogeneous nodes and waveforms. Due to its highly dynamic nature and bandwidth constraints, new AN technologies are needed to provide reliable network operations with similar levels of mission support as in terrestrial networks. This article first identifies challenges in designing and evaluating AN technologies and then describes an ongoing effort to develop a realistic wireless testing and performance evaluation platform for ANs. A set of use cases are presented to illustrate how high fidelity emulation can be used to evaluate new architectures and protocols in AN environments.

Keywords

IP networks; aircraft communication; military communication; military computing; protocols; AN environments; AN technologies; IP-based hierarchical network; airborne network evaluation; bandwidth constraints; heterogeneous nodes; high fidelity emulation solution; protocols; terrestrial networks; wireless testing; Aircraft navigation; Atmospheric modeling; Emulation; Military communication; Mobile communication; Radio frequency; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCOM.2014.6917398

Filename

6917398