Handover Strategy Based on Side Information in Air-Ground Integrated Vehicular Networks

The development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart cities, combined with the widespread usage of cooperative or independent air traffic surveillance systems such as automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) bring about novel deployment paradigms in air-ground integrated vehicular networks (AGVN). Therefore, how to make full use of infrastructures, which represented by high altitude platform station (HAPS), and can be orchestrated according to fully use information like ADS-B message, becomes the imminent problem that should be solved. In the view of above problems, in this paper, we propose a novel handover strategy based on side information of the ADS-B for AGVN. Firstly, a practical scenario which use single HAPS as air base station to assist cellular network with multiple users is proposed. Secondly, according to the surveillance platform, side information such as the location, speed, and realtime throughput of HAPS is obtained by all the static base stations using ADS-B system. Thirdly, a modified handover strategy over HAPS based on the side information is used to enhance the service ability of all the network. Simulation results show the fully use of side information can increase the capacity of the AGVN.