High-speed quality Internet provision for aircraft passengers is thought to be one of the major unresolved challenges for ubiquitous Internet provision. This article aims to resolve the problem of airborne Internet access with high quality of service for modern Internet of things devices. Large remote regions in the ocean along the busy air routes (e.g. Atlantic Ocean) require high-speed, reliable, and low-cost airborne Internet (i.e. Internet provision to the aircraft) to manage various delay- and throughput-sensitive applications. Conventional satellite-based solutions can be an alternate for Internet provision in such far-flung areas; but, such solutions are lacking quality of service (with longer delays and low bandwidth) and are significantly costly. Fortunately, the underwater optical fiber cables deployed across the oceans pass along the same busy air routes. This infrastructure of underwater optical fiber cables can be exploited for Internet backbone providing high quality of service for wireless Internet provision to the commercial aircraft. Dedicated stationary ships deployed along these underwater optical fiber cables can be utilized for Internet provision, navigation, and security to ships and aircraft. This article not only proposes the networking infrastructure of the submarine cable-based airborne Internet access architecture but also presents a novel routing scheme for airborne ad hoc networks. Also, we analyze quality of service provision as compared to other existing techniques. Our simulation results show that our proposed solution outperforms other existing schemes for airborne Internet service provision, in the presence of high mobility and dynamic topology changes.

为飞机乘客提供高速优质的互联网服务被认为是无处不在的互联网服务尚未解决的主要挑战之一。本文旨在解决现代物联网设备高品质服务的机载上网问题。沿繁忙航线（例如大西洋）的海洋中的大片偏远地区需要高速、可靠和低成本的机载互联网（即为飞机提供互联网）来管理各种对延迟和吞吐量敏感的应用程序。传统的基于卫星的解决方案可以作为在这些偏远地区提供互联网的替代方案；但是，此类解决方案缺乏服务质量（延迟较长且带宽较低）且成本高昂。幸运的是，部署在大洋彼岸的水下光缆沿着同样繁忙的航线经过。这种水下光纤电缆基础设施可用于互联网骨干网，为商用飞机提供高质量的无线互联网服务。沿着这些水下光纤电缆部署的专用固定船舶可用于为船舶和飞机提供互联网、导航和安全。本文不仅提出了基于海底电缆的机载互联网接入架构的网络基础设施，而且还提出了一种新的机载自组网路由方案。此外，我们分析了与其他现有技术相比的服务质量。