Internet access new to commercial aircraft in 2008 ... Current State of Technology ... themselves while maintaining a wireless network between each other.
Agent-Based Model of Aerial Ad-Hoc Network Market Potential Authors:
Christopher B. Watkins Cihan H. Dagli Missouri University of Science and Technology
Presented by: Christopher B. Watkins Research completed as part of Mr. Watkins’ studies in the Systems Engineering Masters Program, specifically as part of SysEng 419 “NetworkCentric System Architecting and Engineering” led by Dr. Dagli
Paper Published at: 30th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC) Seattle, WA October 2011
Research Inspired by Papers Published at 29th DASC (2010) Published by authors from German Aerospace Center (DLR) •
Protocol Architecture Analysis for Internet Connectivity in Aeronautical Ad Hoc Networks [4] – Felix Hoffmann, Daniel Medina, Adam Wolisz
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New Concepts for a Decentralized Self-Organizing Air-to-Air Radio Link [6] – Michael Walter, Nico Franzen, Michael Schnell
In-Flight Internet Access is New • About 30% of world population is an internet user [1]
• Internet access new to commercial aircraft in 2008 – At end of 2010, only about 1000 commercial jets were equipped with Wi-Fi internet access in US (
