Airport channel measurements at 5.2GHz

Author

Gligorevic, Snjezana ; Zierhut, Richard ; Jost, Thomas ; Wang, Wei

Author_Institution

German Aerosp. Center (DLR), Inst. of Commun. & Navig., Wessling

fYear

2009

fDate

23-27 March 2009

Firstpage

877

Lastpage

881

Abstract

A new technology based on IEEE 802.16e should be applied for airport data link applications. To determine the most adequate parameters for the physical layer system design, it is important to consider the propagation channel characteristics. The paper presents results of the channel measurement campaign at Munich airport, in the C band. Using a test signal of 120 MHz bandwidth, large number of channel transfer functions were recorded and the channel characteristics evaluated in terms of number of uncorrelated multipath components, delay spread, total Doppler spread, coherence bandwidth and time.

Keywords

aircraft communication; airports; electromagnetic wave propagation; multipath channels; transfer functions; Doppler spread; IEEE 802.16e; airport channel measurement; airport data link application; channel transfer function; delay spread; frequency 120 MHz; frequency 5.2 GHz; physical layer system design; propagation channel characteristics; uncorrelated multipath component; Air traffic control; Aircraft; Airports; Bandwidth; Delay effects; Frequency; Physical layer; Position measurement; Receiving antennas; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation, 2009. EuCAP 2009. 3rd European Conference on

Conference_Location

Berlin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4753-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-3-00-024573-2

Type

conf

Filename

5067757