Simulation/Optimization Modeling for Robust Satellite Data Unit for Airborne Network
AIAA 2015-3100 AIAA AVIATION Forum 22-26 June 2015, Dallas, TX AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference Simulation/Optimization Modeling for Robust Satellite Data Unit for Airborne Network Joe Zambrano*, Omar Yeste† and René Landry, Jr.‡ Laboratory of Space Technologies, Embedded Systems, Navigation and Avionic - LASSENA École de techologie supérieure (ÉTS), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3C 1K3 The Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) and Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) are both ambitious and technically complex government programs. Among their objectives, they propose constant transmission of the exact aircraft’s 4D (latitude, longitude, altitude and time) position vector via Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B), not only to air traffic controllers but also to other aircraft equipped with similar technology. This allows reducing both horizontal and vertical distance between aircraft, as well as securely flying from origin to destiny through more efficient routes without needing to be on the coverage volume of ground stations (GS). As a result, an increase in air traffic density is expected both in transoceanic flights, where Air Traffic Management (ATM) communications are via satellite, and in areas covered by GSs. In addition to the growth of air traffic density, there is the growing demand for communications bandwidth by passengers. Some Satellite Communications (SatCom) service providers such as Inmarsat, Iridium, etc., have already planned their new service offer in Ka-Band in order to support high speed applications and enable airlines to provide better In-Flight Connectivity (IFC). Added to this, different studies conduct researches on a concept called Airborne Network (AN); where aircraft are connected in an ad hoc fashion via wireless links in order to provide broadband access to passengers and crew.
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