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Slot Allocation for a Multi-Airport System Considering Slot Execution Uncertainty
by Fengfan Liu, Minghua Hu, Qingxian Zhang and Lei Yang
Aerospace 2025, 12(4), 282; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace12040282 - 27 Mar 2025
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Capacity–flow balance constitutes the primary challenge in strategic slot allocation. Both air traffic flow and airport flow are significantly influenced by departure/arrival times of flights. However, due to various uncontrollable factors such as flow control, delay propagation, and weather conditions, the actual departure/arrival [...] Read more.
Capacity–flow balance constitutes the primary challenge in strategic slot allocation. Both air traffic flow and airport flow are significantly influenced by departure/arrival times of flights. However, due to various uncontrollable factors such as flow control, delay propagation, and weather conditions, the actual departure/arrival times of flights inevitably deviate from their schedules. This reflects the inherent uncertainty in flight slot execution, which directly introduces uncertainty into capacity–flow analysis. In this paper, we develop an uncertainty slot allocation model for the multi-airport system (MAS), which incorporates slot execution deviation as an uncertainty factor with fix capacity restrictions formulated as chance constraints to balance robustness and optimality. To solve the model, we employ an equivalent model transformation approach and develop a scenario generation methodology. We applied our model to the MAS of Beijing–Tianjin for slot allocation. The results show that when the violation probability α[0,0.2] , the model achieved fully robust optimization. Even when α increases to 0.4, under all scenario combinations, at the selected fix, compared with the results of the deterministic model and original schedules, the number of peak flow time windows in the expected traffic statistics decreased by 84.6% and 75%, respectively, and the average maximum values of traffic in the maximum traffic statistics decreased by 31.1% and 33.5%, respectively. Furthermore, the incorporation of the chance constraint provides slot coordinators with flexible optimization solutions based on their acceptable risk levels. Full article
(This article belongs to the Section Air Traffic and Transportation)
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A Novel Medium Access Policy Based on Reinforcement Learning in Energy-Harvesting Underwater Sensor Networks
by Çiğdem Eriş, Ömer Melih Gül and Pınar Sarısaray Bölük
Sensors 2024, 24(17), 5791; https://doi.org/10.3390/s24175791 - 6 Sep 2024
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Underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs) are fundamental assets to enable discovery and utilization of sub-sea environments and have attracted both academia and industry to execute long-term underwater missions. Given the heightened significance of battery dependency in underwater wireless sensor networks, our objective is [...] Read more.
Underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs) are fundamental assets to enable discovery and utilization of sub-sea environments and have attracted both academia and industry to execute long-term underwater missions. Given the heightened significance of battery dependency in underwater wireless sensor networks, our objective is to maximize the amount of harvested energy underwater by adopting the TDMA time slot scheduling approach to prolong the operational lifetime of the sensors. In this study, we considered the spatial uncertainty of underwater ambient resources to improve the utilization of available energy and examine a stochastic model for piezoelectric energy harvesting. Considering a realistic channel and environment condition, a novel multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithm is proposed. Nodes observe and learn from their choice of transmission slots based on the available energy in the underwater medium and autonomously adapt their communication slots to their energy harvesting conditions instead of relying on the cluster head. In the numerical results, we present the impact of piezoelectric energy harvesting and harvesting awareness on three lifetime metrics. We observe that energy harvesting contributes to 4% improvement in first node dead (FND), 14% improvement in half node dead (HND), and 22% improvement in last node dead (LND). Additionally, the harvesting-aware TDMA-RL method further increases HND by 17% and LND by 38%. Our results show that the proposed method improves in-cluster communication time interval utilization and outperforms traditional time slot allocation methods in terms of throughput and energy harvesting efficiency. Full article
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