Analysis of deficit round robin scheduling for future aeronautical data link

Abstract

The aviation community is currently working on the standardization of data communication systems for the future air traffic management. In this context, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has initiated a work on standardization of an IPv6-based aeronautical telecommunications network and on future radio access technologies, respectively. In this paper, we integrate L-Band Digital Aeronautical Communications System Option 1 (L-DACS 1), which is one candidate for future radio access technologies, with realistic IPv6-based network layer functionality and analyze Deficit Round Robin (DRR) with fragmentation algorithm for the forward and return link in L-DACS 1. Our analysis mainly covers two application domains: file transfer and real-time services. We show that DRR with fragmentation scheduler provides good performance results in terms of throughput, delay, and bandwidth fairness.