Flight trial demonstration of seamless aeronautical networking

Plass, Simon; Hermenier, Romain; Lücke, Oliver; Depoorter, Dirk Gomez; Tordjman, Theophile; Chatterton, Mark; Amirfeiz, Massimiliano; Scotti, Simone; Cheng, Yongqiang; Pillai, Prashant; Gräupl, Thomas; Durand, Frederic; Murphy, Ken; Marriott, Andrew; Zaitsev, Alexander

doi:10.1109/mcom.2014.6815902

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“…In this section, we will describe a range of existing aircraft communication systems and discuss future techniques [74], [75] considered for mitigating the increasing congestion and for meeting the future demands of sustainable air traffic worldwide [74]. As shown in Fig.…”

Section: Aeronautical Communicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Aeronautical $Ad~Hoc$ Networking for the Internet-Above-the-Clouds

Chen²,

et al. 2019

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The engineering vision of relying on the "smart sky" for supporting air traffic and the "Internet above the clouds" for in-flight entertainment has become imperative for the future aircraft industry. Aeronautical ad hoc Networking (AANET) constitutes a compelling concept for providing broadband communications above clouds by extending the coverage of Air-to-Ground (A2G) networks to oceanic and remote airspace via autonomous and self-configured wireless networking amongst commercial passenger airplanes. The AANET concept may be viewed as a new member of the family of Mobile ad hoc Networks (MANETs) in action above the clouds. However, AANETs have more dynamic topologies, larger and more variable geographical network size, stricter security requirements and more hostile transmission conditions. These specific characteristics lead to more grave challenges in aircraft mobility modeling, aeronautical channel modeling and interference mitigation as well as in network scheduling and routing. This paper provides an overview of AANET solutions by characterizing the associated scenarios, requirements and challenges. Explicitly, the research addressing the key techniques of AANETs, such as their mobility models, network scheduling and routing, security and interference are reviewed. Furthermore, we also identify the remaining challenges associated with developing AANETs and present their prospective solutions as well as open issues. The design framework of AANETs and the key technical issues are investigated along with some recent research results. Furthermore, a range of performance metrics optimized in designing AANETs and a number of representative multi-objective optimization algorithms are outlined.

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confidence: 99%

Aeronautical $Ad~Hoc$ Networking for the Internet-Above-the-Clouds

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“…In [128], a large number of flight tests have been done to provide a seamless connection through smooth handovers among three future data links: AeroMACS, VDL Mode 2 and BGAN. The project is called SANDRA, and the main goal is to achieve flexible and scalable network connectivity.…”

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Potential Data Link Candidates for Civilian Unmanned Aircraft Systems: A Survey

Zolanvari

Jain

Salman

2020

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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This survey studies the potential data link candidates for unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs). There has been tremendous growth in different applications of UAVs such as lifesaving and rescue missions, commercial use, recreations, etc. Unlike the traditional wireless communications, the data links for these systems do not have any general standardized framework yet to ensure safe co-existence of UAVs with other flying vehicles. This motivated us to provide a comprehensive survey of potential data link technologies available for UAVs. Our goal is to study the current trends and available candidates and carry out a comprehensive comparison among them. The contribution of this survey is to highlight the strength and weakness of the current data link options and their suitability to satisfy the UAVs communication requirements. Satellite links, cellular technologies, Wi-Fi and several similar wireless technologies are studied thoroughly in this paper. We also focus on several available promising standards that can be modified for these data links. Then, we discuss standard-related organizations that are working actively in the area of civilian unmanned systems. Finally, we bring up some future challenges in this area with several potential solutions to motivate further research work. Index Terms-Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), unmanned aircraft vehicle (UAV), civilian applications, data link, satellite communication, cellular communication, aviation standards, standard bodies, future challenges. SATCOM Provider ATC Pilot Cellular Provider Satellite UAV Cellular Tower Fig. 1 2 2) Network RequirementsThere are several survey papers discussing the requirements for UAS data link such as [2], and [9][10][11][12][13][14]. For example, the requirements for the UASs based on four different areas of missions, communication networks, communication data links, navigation, and surveillance are discussed in [2]. Several detailed discussions about the communication data link requirements such as range, velocity, latency, reliability, availability, integrity, security, and bit rate are provided. As another instance, a survey of UAVs communication requirements has been studied in [9]. These requirements are based on four categories of UAV applications (i.e., search and rescue, area coverage, delivery/transportation, and construction). Moreover, the important requirements and considerations regarding the network layer of UAV communications have been discussed in [14]. 3) Channel ModelingChannel modeling must be studied for designing and evaluating proper UAV data links for different applications. There have been several research work and surveys on channel modeling for UAV communications, such as [15][16][17][18]. For instance, a comprehensive survey on channel modeling for UAV communications is provided in [15]. Different channel modeling approaches along with the associated challenges have been studied. 4) Our ContributionWe have studied the existing survey papers on the aforementioned issues related to the UAV data links. In this s...

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“…Within this large European research endeavor and the US pendant Next generation national Airspace Systems (NextGen), new broadband digital data link technologies for air traffic management are currently in development [14,15,16,17,18,19,20]. Figure 1 illustrates the relationship between the different components building DLR's "Networking the Sky" concept [21,22] including AeroMACS for near airport communications [10,23,24], SatCOM for oceanic, remote and polar domains [20,25], and LDACS A/G for en-route terrestrial long-range communications [5,6,22,26]. The scope of this paper focuses only on the LDACS A/G data link keeping the other communication ways and requirements in mind for potential further investigations and extensions for cross interactions.…”

Section: Networking the Skymentioning

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Towards Successful Realization of the LDACS Cybersecurity Architecture: An Updated Datalink Security Threat- And Risk Analysis

Mäurer

Schmitt

2019

2019 Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance Conference (ICNS)

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Currently Communication Navigation and Surveillance (CNS) in civil aviation are undergoing huge changes in the framework of the European SESAR and the US NextGEN research initiatives. One goal is to develop the Future Communication Infrastructure (FCI) for civil aviation, consisting of AeroMACs for airport communications, SatCOM for remote domains, and LDACS for long-range wireless digital communications. The trend towards digitalization is supposed to solve the problems of capacity shortage, frequency saturation and automated data processing. Due to the digitalization process in communication itself and especially in critical infrastructure a strong request for cybersecurity support was raised. Therefore, a threat-andrisk analysis for LDACS was performed resulting in a first cybersecurity architecture specification draft. This paper goes one step further, presenting a suitable set of algorithms and protocols for security support for LDACS. The set is evaluated performance and security wise to match the cybersecurity architecture specification identified in earlier work.

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Flight trial demonstration of seamless aeronautical networking

Cited by 15 publications

References 6 publications

Aeronautical $Ad~Hoc$ Networking for the Internet-Above-the-Clouds

Aeronautical $Ad~Hoc$ Networking for the Internet-Above-the-Clouds

Potential Data Link Candidates for Civilian Unmanned Aircraft Systems: A Survey

Towards Successful Realization of the LDACS Cybersecurity Architecture: An Updated Datalink Security Threat- And Risk Analysis

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