Survey on the Future Aeronautical Communication System and Its Development for Continental Communications

Neji, Najett; Lacerda, Raul de; Azoulay, Alain; Letertre, Thierry; Outtier, Olivier

doi:10.1109/tvt.2012.2207138

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“…Whereas, in L-DACS2, uplink and downlink transmissions take place alternatively, in a half-duplex method. We refer the readers to [135] for more information on these two techniques and their frame structures.…”

Section: B L-dacsmentioning

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Potential Data Link Candidates for Civilian Unmanned Aircraft Systems: A Survey

Zolanvari

Jain

Salman

2020

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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This survey studies the potential data link candidates for unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs). There has been tremendous growth in different applications of UAVs such as lifesaving and rescue missions, commercial use, recreations, etc. Unlike the traditional wireless communications, the data links for these systems do not have any general standardized framework yet to ensure safe co-existence of UAVs with other flying vehicles. This motivated us to provide a comprehensive survey of potential data link technologies available for UAVs. Our goal is to study the current trends and available candidates and carry out a comprehensive comparison among them. The contribution of this survey is to highlight the strength and weakness of the current data link options and their suitability to satisfy the UAVs communication requirements. Satellite links, cellular technologies, Wi-Fi and several similar wireless technologies are studied thoroughly in this paper. We also focus on several available promising standards that can be modified for these data links. Then, we discuss standard-related organizations that are working actively in the area of civilian unmanned systems. Finally, we bring up some future challenges in this area with several potential solutions to motivate further research work. Index Terms-Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), unmanned aircraft vehicle (UAV), civilian applications, data link, satellite communication, cellular communication, aviation standards, standard bodies, future challenges. SATCOM Provider ATC Pilot Cellular Provider Satellite UAV Cellular Tower Fig. 1 2 2) Network RequirementsThere are several survey papers discussing the requirements for UAS data link such as [2], and [9][10][11][12][13][14]. For example, the requirements for the UASs based on four different areas of missions, communication networks, communication data links, navigation, and surveillance are discussed in [2]. Several detailed discussions about the communication data link requirements such as range, velocity, latency, reliability, availability, integrity, security, and bit rate are provided. As another instance, a survey of UAVs communication requirements has been studied in [9]. These requirements are based on four categories of UAV applications (i.e., search and rescue, area coverage, delivery/transportation, and construction). Moreover, the important requirements and considerations regarding the network layer of UAV communications have been discussed in [14]. 3) Channel ModelingChannel modeling must be studied for designing and evaluating proper UAV data links for different applications. There have been several research work and surveys on channel modeling for UAV communications, such as [15][16][17][18]. For instance, a comprehensive survey on channel modeling for UAV communications is provided in [15]. Different channel modeling approaches along with the associated challenges have been studied. 4) Our ContributionWe have studied the existing survey papers on the aforementioned issues related to the UAV data links. In this s...

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Section: B L-dacsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Potential Data Link Candidates for Civilian Unmanned Aircraft Systems: A Survey

Zolanvari

Jain

Salman

2020

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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“…Furthermore, the VDL modes that were capable of increasing spectral efficiency by restricting transmission channel bandwidth resulted in degradation of system data rate which leads to the concept of broadbandoverlay systems [32], [38]. There are always some unused 25 KHz and 8.33 KHz AM voice channels, or ACARS and VDL data links at any given point in time, as well as channels that are being used at a significant distance whose interference is small enough to assume that they are unused.…”

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Cognitive Radio for Aeronautical Communications: A Survey

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Novel Air Traffic Management (ATM) strategies are proposed through the Next Generation Air Transportation (NextGen) and Single European Sky for ATM Research (SESAR) projects to improve the capacity of the airspace and to meet the demands of the future air traffic. The implementation of the proposed solutions leads to increasing use of wireless data for aeronautical communications. Another emerging trend is the unmanned aerial vehicles. The unmanned aerial systems (UASs) need reliable wireless data link and dedicated spectrum allocation for its operation. On-board broadband connectivity also needs dedicated spectrum to satisfy the quality of service (QoS) requirements of the users. With the growing demand, the aeronautical spectrum is expected to be congested. However, the studies revealed that the aeronautical spectrum is underutilized due to the static spectrum allocation strategy. The aeronautical communication systems such as air-air and airground communication systems, inflight infotainment systems, wireless avionics intra-communications (WAIC), and UAS can benefit significantly from the introduction of cognitive radio based transmission schemes. This article summarizes the current trends in aeronautical spectrum management followed by the major applications and contributions of cognitive radio in solving the spectrum scarcity crisis in the aeronautical domain. Also, to cope with the evolving technological advancement, researchers have prioritized the issues in the case of cognitive radio that needs to be addressed depending on the domain of operation. The proposed cognitive aeronautical communication systems should also be compliant with the Aeronautical Radio Incorporated (AR-INC) and Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) standards. An overview of these standards and the challenges that need immediate attention to make the solution feasible for a largescale operation, along with the future avenues of research is also furnished.

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“…According to (4) and (6), the denominator of the SINR expression, which is directly affected by ECG, can be written as…”

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“…To follow this road-map, the future air-to-ground (A/G) communications are foreseen to support a huge number of short messages for real-time automatic monitoring and controlling [2], [3]. However, the existing aeronautical data-links may not be able to support the high frequency small data communications efficiently [4], where short messages (only hundreds of bits normally) operated hundreds of times within a second. On one hand, the mechanism of apply-and-allocate may lead to a horrendous waste of valuable aeronautical spectrum resources, because the actual transmitting time may be very limited comparing the waiting time, especially for short messages.…”

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A primary rate guaranteed SDMA for aeronautical communications

Bai

Xie

Guan

et al. 2013

2013 8th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China (CHINACOM)

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In order to achieve an efficient usage of a limited aeronautical spectrum for aeronautical communications, in this paper, a primary rate guaranteed space division multiple access (SDMA) is proposed to support advanced air to ground (A/G) communication systems, i.e., full 4-Dimensional Trajectory based operations. We focus on the random access of a large number of short messages between aircrafts and the ground station. It shows that using a zero-forcing beamforming combined with a low complexity aircrafts grouping strategy, the proposed SDMA is able to improve the spectrum efficiency under a primary rate constraint.

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Survey on the Future Aeronautical Communication System and Its Development for Continental Communications

Cited by 55 publications

References 17 publications

Potential Data Link Candidates for Civilian Unmanned Aircraft Systems: A Survey

Potential Data Link Candidates for Civilian Unmanned Aircraft Systems: A Survey

Cognitive Radio for Aeronautical Communications: A Survey

A primary rate guaranteed SDMA for aeronautical communications

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