Performance Analysis of an Ad Hoc Network in the INtelligent Airport

Abstract

In recent years, an ever-increasing growth in international air traffic has made airports the most complex and busiest built environments known. Provisioning quality of service (QoS) to passengers and staff, in such a dynamic environment, is extremely challenging. However, having previously designed and determined the passenger flow [1,2] according to flight departures, in this paper we propose an ad hoc network scenario to disseminate important information to staff and travellers for business, security and social reasons. This setup not only helps us to provide useful information to the users in a cost-effective way, it also enables us to study some unknown parameters such as the impact of buffer size and battery consumption in this dynamic environment.