Trace Extraction for Mobility in Civil Aeronautical Communication Networks Simulation

This chapter first discusses the current traffic regulations in different airspaces in order to lay out the constraints that exist on aircraft movement. It then discusses traffic trace extraction, enhancement and filtering. The chapter presents an example of trace extraction for aeronautical communication simulation over the north Atlantic airspace. This airspace is interesting both for the heavy traffic that passes through it and for the lack of infrastructure that prevents any cell‐based communication mechanisms. Extraction of mobility traces for network simulation can be decomposed into three steps. These three parts consist of extracting the information, filtering it so as to target the simulation and then improving the traces so as to use them in network simulation. The choice between traces and random mobility models appears as a classical trade‐off between the time and resources available for simulating the system and the accuracy of the simulation.