A study of future communications concepts and technologies for the national airspace system — Part III

Author

Ponchak, Denise S. ; Apaza, Rafael D. ; Haynes, Brian ; Wichgers, Joel M. ; Roy, Anirban

Author_Institution

NASA Glenn Res. Center, Cleveland, OH, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

5-9 Oct. 2014

Abstract

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center (GRC) is investigating current and anticipated wireless communications concepts and technologies that the National Airspace System (NAS) may need in the next 50 years. NASA has awarded three NASA Research Announcements (NAR) studies with the objective to determine the most promising candidate technologies for air-to-air and air-to-ground data exchange and analyze their suitability in a post-NextGen NAS environment. This paper will present progress made in the studies and describe the communications challenges and opportunities that have been identified as part of the study.

Keywords

data communication; mobile communication; next generation networks; space communication links; GRC; Glenn Research Center; NAR; NASA research announcements; National Aeronautics and Space Administration; National Airspace System; air-to-air data exchange; air-to-ground data exchange; postNextGen NAS environment; wireless communications; Air traffic control; Aircraft; Computer architecture; NASA; Safety; Satellites; Security;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), 2014 IEEE/AIAA 33rd

Conference_Location

Colorado Springs, CO

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5002-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DASC.2014.6979439

Filename

6979439