Assigning time slot resources for uplink broadcast services

Author

Moody, Chris ; Wilson, Warren ; Gheorghisor, Izabela

Author_Institution

MITRE Corp., McLean, VA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

24-28 Oct. 2004

Abstract

The FAA\´s Safe Flight 21 and Capstone programs are planning to deploy ground stations supporting broadcast services. Collectively, the term "broadcast services" encompasses three forms of broadcast information: automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B), traffic information services-broadcast (TIS-B) and flight information services broadcast (FIS-B). The Safe Flight 21 and Capstone programs both entail the installation of ground stations (referred to as ground-based transceivers - GBTs) that receive ADS-B information from, as well as transmit TIS-B and FIS-B information to equipped aircraft. The FAA has established a policy supporting two data links for broadcast services: 1090 Extended Squitter, and the Universal Access Transceiver (UAT). The initial ground infrastructures of both the Safe Flight 21 and Capstone programs are primarily limited to UAT. Therefore the focus of this paper is on the UAT data link.

Keywords

aircraft communication; channel allocation; data communication; ground support systems; surveillance; transceivers; 1090 Extended Squitter; Capstone programs; FAA; Safe Flight 21; Universal Access Transceiver; automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast; broadcast information; data links; equipped aircraft; flight information services broadcast; ground stations; ground-based transceivers; time slot resource assignment; traffic information services-broadcast; uplink broadcast services; Air traffic control; Aircraft; Broadcasting; FAA; Payloads; Random media; Satellite ground stations; Surveillance; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 2004. DASC 04. The 23rd

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8539-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DASC.2004.1391256

Filename

1391256