Performance analysis of Cooperative Schemes for Wireless Sensor Network of Aircraft

Abstract

In this paper, the wireless communication channels of the aircraft environment are investigated and total energy consumption, throughput metrics are analyzed by non-cooperative schemes which are single-hop, multi-hop, and cooperative relaying schemes which are Amplify and Forward(AF), Decode and Forward(DF), Incremental Decode and Forward(IDF), Incremental Amplify, Forward(IAF) to compare each performance. In case of the channel model, path-loss, large-scale fading, and small-scale fading channels are modeled by referring experimental parameters of ITU(International Telecommunication Union) report, which is measured in the aircraft between inter-cabin and inter-cabin and between inter-cabin and a wing. When the total energy consumption and throughput performance are analyzed by using six schemes, the incremental cooperative schemes outperform the other schemes in terms of energy consumption and throughput.