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Network Availability Enhancement in Low-Altitude HetNets: A Cross-Layer Design Perspective
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This paper proposes a computing-communication resource interchange method to enhance network availability (NA) in low-altitude heterogeneous networks (LA-HetNets). In these networks, communication resource conflicts and imbalances, caused by extreme heterogeneity (diverse mobility, mixed delays, and hybrid transmission), and cross-regional traffic, reduce reliability and lead to unavailability. Restoring NA requires additional communication resources, yet dynamic cross-regional scheduling is limited, making locally redundant computing resources an alternative to reduce communication resource overhead. While computing resources address medium access control (MAC)-layer unreliability, physical (PHY)-layer functionalities still rely on communication resources. Thus, it remains unclear whether increasing computing resources alone can achieve target NA, especially under greater heterogeneity. We elaborate on the impact of heterogeneity on NA and show that expanding computing resources alone cannot meet target NA under high heterogeneity, as NA degrades sharply due to increased communication capability demands. To overcome this, we propose a cross-layer optimization method enabling computing-communication resource interchange to address both MAC- and PHY-layer unreliability. By reducing processing delays with computing resources while ensuring MAC-layer reliability, our method extends PHY-layer transmission delay and expands communication resources. Simulations demonstrate our approach's superiority in achieving target NA under greater heterogeneity, revealing that computing-communication resource interchange fulfills expanding communication capability demands more effectively than conventional resource overhead reduction.
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