Journal of System Simulation ›› 2022, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (09): 1933-1940.doi: 10.16182/j.issn1004731x.joss.21-0449

• Modeling Theory and Methodology •     Next Articles

OPNET Based Simulation of Hybrid TDMA Protocol for Helicopters Datalink

Yanfang Fu1(), Nan Zhang1, Jianing Wei2, Shaochun Qu1, Ying Lu1, Chang Liu2   

  1. 1.School of Computer Science and Engineering Xi’an Technological University, Xi’an 710021, China
    2.Science and Technology on Complex System Control and Intelligent Agent Cooperation Laboratory, Beijing Electro-mechanical Engineering Institute, Beijing 100074, China
  • Received:2021-05-19 Revised:2021-07-13 Online:2022-09-18 Published:2022-09-23

Abstract:

For the current time slot allocation problem of the data link, an improved hybrid time slot allocation protocol based on grey relational analysis is proposed and implemented. Through the aggregation of throughput, delay and load of current message buffer by grey relational analysis, the comprehensive evaluation index is obtained, and the time slot is allocated dynamically. The fixed time slot allocation is also adopted to ensure that at least one time slot is available for nodes in the network.Simulation results show that compared with the fixed TDMA(time division multiple access) protocol and the P-TDMA(priority-TDMA) protocol, the proposed protocol not only reduces contention conflicts, but also guarantees a lower delay, a relatively high throughput and a high time slot utilization rate.

Key words: OPNET, Link-16, fixed TDMA (time division multiple access) protocol, mixed time slot allocation protocol, helicopters datalink

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