Load Balancing with Mobile Base Stations in Tactical Information Communication Networks

A Tactical Information Communication Network (TICN) enables communication among military entities during warfare. In a TICN, base stations (BSs) are required to move along with mobile devices in order to provide the communication wherever they are. This type of BS is referred to as Mobile Base Station (MBS). The backhaual of an MBS is composed of a wireless communication link so that the performance of a TICN can be limited by the unstable backhaul link capacity. In this paper, we propose load balancing algorithms considering the capacity of backhaul links in a TICN. Association control based load balancing algorithms and transmit power control based load balancing algorithms are proposed and analyzed. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithms improve the system performance of a TICN by reducing the outage rate significantly.