Performance analysis of modulation schemes for wireless optical in-cabin aircraft networks

Author

Marinos, D. ; Aidinis, C. ; Vassilopoulos, C. ; Kouros, P. ; Schmitt, N. ; Pistner, T. ; Schalk, J. ; Klaue, J.

Author_Institution

Dept of Electron., Comput., Telecommun. & Control, Nat. & Kapodistrian Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece

Volume

3

fYear

2010

fDate

15-17 June 2010

Firstpage

1401

Lastpage

1403

Abstract

One of the major tasks in the future of aircraft inflight entertainment is to provide wireless connectivity throughout the cabin. In this work an optical OFDM modulation scheme for cellular network architecture is investigated in comparison to other conventional optical modulation techniques (PPM, OOK). An analysis of efficient cabin link layout with respect to seat rows per cell and available data rates, allowing high quality services for specific application (e.g. Video, data transfer), is presented for an implemented minimum of 10Mbit/s per cell. A wireless optical OFDM communication prototype has also been implemented in a laboratory experiment and compared to a conventional diffuse optical 2PPM, achieving 17.2Mbit/s data transmission, thus doubling the previously achieved performance, but being based on line of sight links in the laboratory only. Both implementations prove the usefulness of the investigated modulation schemes.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; aircraft communication; optical fibre networks; wireless mesh networks; cellular network architecture; optical OFDM modulation scheme; wireless optical in-cabin aircraft networks; Biomedical optical imaging; OFDM; Optical fiber networks; Optical modulation; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology (ITSim), 2010 International Symposium in

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

ISSN

2155-897

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6715-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITSIM.2010.5561517

Filename

5561517