• DocumentCode
    1411014
  • Title

    Slot Length and Line-of-Sight Protection

  • Author

    Steinberg, Herbert A.

  • Author_Institution
    TRG Division, Control Data Corporation, Melville, N. Y. 11746
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1968
  • fDate
    3/1/1968 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    290
  • Lastpage
    294
  • Abstract
    The reasoning which led to the particular slot structure defined for the collision avoidance system specified by the Air Transportation Association Collision Avoidance System Technical Working Group is discussed. The objectives were to choose a slot length that would 1) minimize the probability of interference, 2) maximize the capacity of the information channel (as measured by the number of messages received in a unit of time). Interference can be manifested by the garbling of either the collision avoidance message or the synchronization signals.
  • Keywords
    Air transportation; Aircraft; Collision avoidance; Frequency synchronization; Geometry; Interference; Length measurement; Protection; Time measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9251
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TAES.1968.5408969
  • Filename
    5408969