Title
Systematic Medium Access Control in Hierarchical Airborne Networks with Multi-Beam and Single-Beam Antennas
Abstract
A heterogeneous medium access control (MAC) scheme (with both scheduled and random communications) is proposed for airborne networks. These networks have a hierarchical topology with a small number of powerful aircraft nodes with multibeam antennas and long-distance links at the higher level, and high-density unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) nodes with single-beam directional antennas at the lower le...
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/TAES.2018.2864468
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Aircraft,Media Access Protocol,Unmanned aerial vehicles,Uplink,Switches,Aerospace electronics,Antennas
Synchronization,Computer network,Polling,Communication channel,Electronic engineering,Beam (structure),Access control,Directional antenna,Mathematics,Telecommunications link,Performance improvement
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
55
2
0018-9251
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.42
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xin Li1192.16
Fei Hu267552.36
Ji Qi35010.17
S. Kumar425728.32