• Investigated the feasibility of relay-based wireless avionics intra-communication (WAIC) using IEEE 802.11 standard.
• Developed a SolidWorks model of the avionics compartment to simulate multipath channel (ray-tracing algorithm) and fading effects.
• Analyzed the delay-violation probability performance of the transmitter under different fading conditions (flat and frequency-selective) using the effective capacity model (Stochastic Network Calculus), and explored the impact of variable-bit-rate traffic on the performance.
• Proposed a resource allocation scheme to solve the problem of maximizing the effective capacity of a single relay system (When the QoS exponent approaches infinity, the effective capacity degenerates to zero-outage capacity).
• Evaluated the performance of the WAIC system using software-defined radio, and compared the results with the simulation results.