Comparison of VDL modes in the terminal domain

Author

Murawski, Robert W. ; Bretmersky, Steven C. ; Konangi, Vijay K.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

3

fYear

2004

fDate

6-13 March 2004

Abstract

In This work we investigate the comparative performance of VDL modes 2, 3 and 4 by simulating mobile aircraft that dynamically establish and disconnect links to the ground station. The principal consideration was to model and simulate realistic data traffic and aircraft traffic patterns in the terminal domain, which in these simulations is the area within a 70 nautical mile radius from the terminal. The simulated aircraft traffic patterns are based on actual data from the Detroit Metropolitan Airport. We consider two aircraft traffic patterns, and the data traffic profile used for the simulations is defined in the relevant standard. The performance criteria used to compare the performance of the three modes is the subnetwork delay. For the simulation scenarios investigated in this research, we recommend VDL Mode 3 in the terminal domain.

Keywords

VHF radio propagation; aerospace simulation; air traffic control; aircraft communication; data communication; mobile radio; radio links; telecommunication traffic; Detroit Metropolitan Airport; VDL modes; VHF digital link; aircraft traffic patterns; data traffic profile; ground station; mobile aircraft simulation; subnetwork delay; terminal domain; Air traffic control; Aircraft; Airports; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Delay; Mobile computing; Satellite ground stations; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 2004. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE

ISSN

1095-323X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8155-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.2004.1367939

Filename

1367939