Service Customized Software-Defined Airborne Information Networks
Airborne information networks have drawn the attention of the research community in the recent years. This growing interest can largely be attributed to new civil and military applications. Currently Airborne information networks are inherently hardware-b
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School of Information and Navigation, Air Force Engineering University, Xi’an, China [email protected], [email protected]
Abstract. Airborne information networks have drawn the attention of the research community in the recent years. This growing interest can largely be attributed to new civil and military applications. Currently Airborne information networks are inherently hardware-based and rely on closed and inflexible architectural design. This imposes significant challenges into adopting new communications and networking technologies. Software Defined Networking, recognized as the nextgeneration networking paradigm, relies on the highly flexible, programmable, and virtualizable network architecture to improve network resource utilization, simplify network management, and promote innovation and evolution. In this paper, the concept of Software Defined Networking technology is introduced first. The features for the airborne environment and research challenges to realize the nextgeneration airborne information networks are discussed. Furthermore, a software-defined architecture is proposed to facilitate the development of the next-generation airborne information networks. The function of network virtuali‐ zation was added, the SDN airborne information network provide differentiated services for airborne applications through employing the network virtualization technology. Aiming at the characteristics of airborne information network environ‐ ment, a series of key technologies are analyzed in detail. Keywords: Airborne information network · Software Defined Network
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Introduction
Airborne information networks, which are widely employed in emergency relief, trans‐ oceanic navigation, environmental science, communication relay and so on, are defined as a network composed of high-speed moving plane as the primary node and wireless communication link between the nodes [1, 2]. With the development of wireless commu‐ nication technology, network transmission ability, network scale and network applica‐ tions diversity, the future airborne information networks will be IP-based network while facing numerous problems and challenges at the same time, such as high mobility, large span and spare distribution, the instability in link quality large accessing user size, the diversification of the aeronautical communication demand [3, 4]. However, for the sake of those problems the most present research works always have been based on TCP/IP protocol architecture and integrated new functionality in network nodes. Generally,
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multiple protocols should be work together to satisfy these network requirements, which leads to disadvantage influence on the high complexity of the design and implementation and the low efficiency in processing information. Software defined network (SDN) provide an opportunity to deal with the aforemen‐ t
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