Airborne Wireless Sensor Networks for Airplane Monitoring System

Table 8

Comparison of network communication schemes for AWSN.

Study; (-)	Platform; (-)	Target application; (-)	Reliability	Energy; efficiency	Real-time; transmission	Type of network	Framework; (-)	Data flow; (-)
Krichen et al. [69, 70]; Chowdhury et al. [71]	Matlab	Vibration monitoring; of aircraft wing	Medium	Medium		Homogeneous	CSMA-CA and; game theory	Continuous
Barcelo et al. [72]	Experiment	Aircraft condition monitoring	Medium	Medium		Homogeneous	CDA and CSMA-CA	Event based
Ma et al. [73], Pook et al. [35],; Kiepert et al. [36, 37], Hall et al. [60, 61]	Experiment	Aircraft cabin environment monitoring	Medium	No		Homogeneous	CSMA-CA	Event based
Guanglin and Hongyu [74]	NS2	Aircraft vibration monitoring	Medium	No		Homogeneous	Zigbee/CSMA-CA	Event based
Notay and Safdar [75]	OPNET	Aircraft condition monitoring	Medium	No		Homogeneous	Zigbee/CSMA-CA	Event based
Ma et al. [73], Park et al. [76]	OPNET	Air flow control for aircraft; wing and body	High	High		Homogeneous	TDMA	Continuous
Zhou and Jing [77]	OPNET	Aircraft health monitoring	High	High		Homogeneous	TDMA	Continuous
Ma et al. [73]	OPNET	Vibration monitoring of; aircraft wing	High	High		Homogeneous	TDMA	Continuous
Arms et al. [42–44]	Experiment	Bell Model 412 helicopter	High	Medium		Homogeneous	CSMA, TDMA; and FDMA	Continuous
Blanckenstein et al. [68]	OPNET	Airbus A330-300	High	High		Homogeneous	TDMA	Continuous