Air to Air Communication Protocol.pdf

1 Air to Air Communication Protocol Arjan Durresi1, Vamsi Paruchuri1, Leonard Barolli2 and Raj Jain3 1Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University 298 Coates Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA 2Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), 3-30-1 Wajiro-Higashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 811-0295, Japan 81-92-606-4970, barolli@fit.ac.jp 3Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA 314-935-4963, jain@ Abstract—We present Air to Air Communication (AAC)1,2, a wireless protocol designed for communication among airplanes as well as airplanes and control centers. AAC enables the broadcast of emergency and surveillance information such as realtime video over the network even in presence of adverse conditions such as coordinated terrorist attacks. AAC is very robust. AAC minimizes the number of retransmissions and therefore reduce the collisions, which could considerably delay transmissions and disrupt the communications during emergency situations. AAC performs very well in highly dynamic ad hoc networks of airplane. AAC has the potential to significantly enhance the security of the homeland by closely monitoring the airplane which, if hijacked by terrorists or criminals, could be used as weapons. We have evaluated AAC through analysis and ns-2 simulations. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION......................................................1 2. BACKGROUND........................................................2 3. AIR TO AIR COMMUNICATION..............................3 4. SIMULATIONS ........................................................5 5. CONCLUSIONS .......................................................7 6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .........................................7 REFERENCES .............................................................7 BIOGRAPHY ....................................