Connectivity of Aeronautical Ad hoc Networks

AANETs (Aeronautical Ad hoc Networks) are a new type of ad hoc networks composed of aircrafts as nodes in network. On one hand, it enhances the situation awareness of aircrafts by multi-hop transmission and correspondingly improves air traffic safety. On the other hand, the high velocity of aircrafts brings in lots of challenges. Connectivity is the fundamental performance index of AANETs. In this paper, we use the metric of probability of an aircraft isolated to analyze the connectivity of AANETs based on our own model. We derive an accurate and analytical expressions of probability of an aircraft isolated with and without considering Doppler shift. At last, we simulate the results under different conditions.

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