Whitworth, HuwAl-Rubaye, SabaTsourdos, AntoniosJiggins, JuliaSilverthorn, NigelThomas, Karim2021-12-072021-12-072021-11-15Whitworth H, Al-Rubaye S, Tsourdos A, et al., (2021) Aircraft to operations communication analysis and architecture for the future aviation environment. In: 2021 AIAA/IEEE 40th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), 3-7 October 2021, San Antonio, New Mexico, USA2155-7209https://doi.org/10.1109/DASC52595.2021.9594426https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/17318Fifth Generation (5G) systems are envisaged to support a wide range of applications scenarios with varying requirements. 5G architecture includes network slicing abilities which facilitate the partitioning of a single network infrastructure on to multiple logical networks, each tailored to a given use case, providing appropriate isolation and Quality of Service (QoS) characteristics. Radio Access Network (RAN) slicing is key to ensuring appropriate QoS over multiple domains; achieved via the configuration of multiple RAN behaviours over a common pool of radio resources. This Paper proposes a novel solution for efficient resource allocation and assignment among a variety of heterogeneous services, to utilize the resources while ensuring maximum QoS for network services. First, this paper evaluates the effectiveness of different wireless data bearers. Secondly, the paper proposes a novel dynamic resource allocation algorithm for RAN slicing within 5G New Radio (NR) networks utilising cooperative game theory combined with priority-based bargaining. The impact of this work to industry is to provide a new technique for resource allocation that utilizes cooperative bargaining to ensure all network services achieve minimum QoS requirements – while using application priority to reduce data transfer time for key services to facilitate decreased turnaround time at the gate.enAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/5GNetwork SlicingGame TheoryRANAviationAircraft CommunicationsConference paper