Communication capacity assesment for the Iris satellite system

Author

Rokitansky, C.H. ; Ehammer, M. ; Gräupl, Th

Author_Institution

Univ. of Salzburg, Salzburg

fYear

2008

fDate

26-30 Oct. 2008

Abstract

The Iris/ARTES 10 programme of the European Space Agency (ESA) aims to develop a satellite system for air traffic services (ATS) and aeronautical operational control (AOC) complementing the existing and future aeronautical communications infrastructure. This paper presents the approach to and the results of the Iris communication capacity assessment conducted in the first phase of the programme. The approach discussed within this paper is based on a combination of the message exchanges defined in the ldquocommunications operating concept and requirements for the future radio systemrdquo document (COCR) of EUROCONTROL and FAA and realistic air-traffic scenarios. The generated voice, data and air traffic is intended for two major purposes: first to identify capacity and protocol requirements for the design of the Iris communication system and secondly as input for the system performance evaluation.

Keywords

air traffic control; satellite communication; ESA; EUROCONTROL; European Space Agency; FAA; Iris satellite system; Iris-ARTES 10 programme; aeronautical communications infrastructure; aeronautical operational control; air traffic services; communication capacity assessment; Air traffic control; Artificial satellites; Communication system traffic; Communication system traffic control; Control systems; FAA; Iris; Protocols; Satellite broadcasting; Subspace constraints;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 2008. DASC 2008. IEEE/AIAA 27th

Conference_Location

St. Paul, MN

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2207-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2208-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DASC.2008.4702778

Filename

4702778