Performance evaluation of two VDL Mode 3 system configurations

Author

Hung, Brian

Author_Institution

Mitre Corp., McLean, VA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Abstract

To control a larger number of aircraft in an en route sector or on an airport surface, a new system configuration referred to as 1 Voice 3 Data (1V3D) has been added to the Very High Frequency (VHF) Digital Link (VDL) Mode 3 subnetwork. This new system configuration supports addressed voice and data communications for up to 240 aircraft in one user group per 25 kHz channel. This paper presents the modeling and simulation results for the 1V3D configuration and compares these results with the 2 Voice 2 Data (2V2D) system configuration in the en route domain.

Keywords

air traffic control; aircraft communication; data communication; delays; digital radio; simulation; 1 Voice 3 Data system configuration; 25 kHz; ATC; VDL mode 3 system configurations; VHF digital link; addressed data communications; addressed voice communications; aircraft communications; connection delays; data transfer delays; downlink delays; en route sector domain; modeling; performance evaluation; simulation; uplink message delays; very high frequency link; Aerospace control; Air traffic control; Aircraft; Communication system traffic control; Data communication; FAA; ISO standards; Physical layer; Satellite ground stations; Time division multiple access;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 2002. Proceedings. The 21st

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7367-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DASC.2002.1067947

Filename

1067947