Comparison of VDL modes in the aeronautical telecommunications network

Author

Bretmersky, Steven ; Konangi, Vijay K. ; Kerczewski, Robert J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Cleveland State Univ., OH, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Abstract

VHF digital link (VDL) has been identified as a method of communication between aircraft and ground stations in the aeronautical telecommunications network (ATN). Three different modes of VDL have been suggested for implementation. Simulations were conducted to compare the data transfer capabilities of VDL modes 2, 3, and 4. These simulations focus on up to 50 aircraft communicating with a single VDL ground station. The data traffic is generated by the standard file transfer protocol (FTP) and hyper text transfer protocol (HTTP) applications in the aircraft. Comparisons of the modes are based on the number of files and pages transferred and the response time.

Keywords

VHF radio propagation; aerospace simulation; aircraft communication; mobile radio; radio links; transceivers; transport protocols; ATN; FTP; VDL transceivers; VHF digital link modes; aeronautical telecommunications networks; aircraft application data traffic generation; aircraft/ground station communication methods; data transfer capability simulations; file transfer protocol; file/page transfer mode comparisons; hyper text transfer protocol; system response time; Aerospace engineering; Air traffic control; Aircraft; Computer networks; Intelligent networks; Media Access Protocol; Satellite ground stations; Telecommunication computing; Time division multiple access; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference Proceedings, 2002. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7231-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.2002.1035250

Filename

1035250