INTERCONNECTION SCHEME FOR A MULTIPROTOCOL HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM IN A CIVIL AIRPORT

Abstract

In the movement area of an airport, the wireless communication system is built to satisfy the communication requirements of mobile stations (MSs), which include aircraft, vehicles, staff, passengers, and sensors. However, the actual airport wireless communication system is a heterogeneous wireless network with multiple individual wireless communication systems. In this paper, we design a multiprotocol base station (MPBS) to realize the access and interconnection of the MSs with different protocols. In addition, a direct forwarding scheme of MPBS is proposed to improve the performance of transmissions from one MS to another. Third, a priority order transmission scheme, which can reduce the end-to-end delay of important data, is proposed for direct forwarding MPBS. Simulation results show that the proposed direct forwarding MPBS scheme can improve the transmission performance of interactive data and reduce the load of the core network.