Study of long term candidates for air-to-air & air-to-ground communications in the National Airspace System (NAS): A forward looking study to identify candidates for meeting the communication needs of the NAS during a 50 year modernization time horizo

Author

Wichgers, J. ; Mitchell, Jerome ; Frank, Gary ; Heinrich, R.

fYear

2013

fDate

22-25 April 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

21

Abstract

A study is being conducted to identify a number of long term candidates for meeting future NAS ATM data comm needs - 50 year time horizon - Candidates have been identified; Initial evaluations of the candidates are underway to: - Quantify attributes and characteristics - Map to ATM uses / flight phases - Identify infrastructure / architecture needs - Identify vulnerabilities and mitigation strategies - Plan to evaluate costs (relative comparisons); Before any candidate would seriously be considered for NAS operations, further analysis, stakeholder vetting, cost benefits, etc. is needed.

Keywords

aerospace safety; data communication; ATM uses; NAS ATM data comm; NAS operations; National Airspace System; air-to-air communications; air-to-ground communications; architecture need identification; communication needs; cost benefits; cost evaluation; flight phases; infrastructure need identification; mitigation strategy identification; stakeholder vetting; vulnerability strategy identification;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance Conference (ICNS), 2013

Conference_Location

Herndon, VA

ISSN

2155-4943

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6251-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICNSurv.2013.6548581

Filename

6548581