Results of field trials and features of FASTE-CNS - a traffic analysis and capacity planning tool for communications, navigation and surveillance

Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, &Amp; Ubiquitous Netw

Mäurer

Schmitt

2019

Civil air traffic is currently growing by about 2.7% per year and, thus, is expected to double in the next 26 years. To cope with this growth the current communication, navigation and surveillance infrastructure for civil aviation is undergoing the transformation from analogue to digital systems. To fulfill the requirements of digital ATM communication we need large-scale simulations to simulate future aeronautical communication systems scaled to the increased amount of participants. This paper presents FACTS2 -the Framework for Aeronautical Communications and Traffic Simulations 2 -enabling the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to use simple software building blocks called "simulation services" to create complex simulations for this purpose. Via FACTS2 we can simulate and evaluate arbitrary air-to-ground or air-to-air wireless point-to-point or broadcast data links between arbitrary entities such as ground-stations, aircraft, or drones in a mobile environment. CCS CONCEPTS• Computing methodologies → Modeling and simulation; Modeling and simulation; • Software and its engineering → Software creation and management.

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Facts2

Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, &Amp; Ubiquitous Netw

Mäurer

Schmitt

2019

“…Various methods have been devised for this purpose. Khanna et al [4] created the FASTE-CNS traffic analysis and capacity planning tool for communications. In this tool selected regions of the USA are assigned constant aircraft populations.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Validating the FACTS2 air traffic simulation framework

2017 Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance Conference (ICNS)

2017

The modernization of the European air transportation system will increase the need for data communication. This creates the need for largescale simulations to ascertain that new aeronautical communication systems fulfil the requirements of future air traffic management communication. In this paper we validate the method of synthetic air traffic generation for aeronautical communication system evaluation by comparing the results of the FACTS2 simulator to radar-correlated flight-plan data of Germany and EUROCONTROL forecast data for Europe. FACTS2 is the German Aerospace Center's next generation framework for aeronautical communication system evaluation. Our results show that FACTS2 captures European air traffic very well, but overestimates the number of flights in Germany. The geographic distribution of flights is accurate at a geographic resolution of 0.1° or coarser and the time distribution of flights in Germany is reproduced correctly.

“…Various tools have been proposed to evaluate improved aeronautical communications systems. Khanna et al [2] created the FASTE-CNS traffic analysis and capacity planning tool for communications. FASTE-CNS is implemented as a computation engine accessible through a web service.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

FACTS2: A service oriented simulation framework for aeronautical communication system evaluation

2016 IEEE/AIAA 35th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC)

2016

The modernization of the European air transportation system will increase the need for data communication. This creates the need for large-scale simulations to ascertain that new aeronautical communication systems fulfil the requirements of future air traffic management communication. This paper presents a framework for such simulations based on service-oriented software architecture. The Framework for Aeronautical Communications and Traffic Simulations 2 (FACTS2) is based on the concept of service oriented simulation creating complex simulations from simple software building blocks called "services". Separating the tasks of services appropriately allows for natural parallelization at the service level. FACTS2 was applied to the simulation of European reference air traffic for the years 2007 to 2035 that will provide the basis for future aeronautical communication evaluations. It could be shown that the service-oriented simulation approach offers significant performance gains through parallelization scaling linearly with the number of available CPUs. The air traffic simulation results were validated against published simulation results to verify their correctness.