Title :
Wireless communication system design for airport surface management .1. Airport ramp measurements at 5.8 GHz
Author :
Shattil, Steve ; Wu, Zhiqiang ; Alagay, A. ; Nassar, Carl R.
Author_Institution :
Idris Commun., Boulder, CO, USA
Abstract :
Airport surface operations (aircraft servicing and maintenance, gate scheduling, and taxi operations) significantly affect the efficiency of airline flight schedules. Therefore, an optimized wireless communication system that supports surface operations can promote airline efficiency. This work presents multipath propagation measurements at airport ramp areas at 5.8 GHz. Statistical characterizations of the wireless channel, from these measurements, indicate large delay spreads (on average 14.78 μs) and small coherence bandwidths (0.5 coherence bandwidth on the order of 12.25 Hz). These findings suggest that the radio environment at an airport offers large diversity gains that can be exploited in future spread-spectrum systems
Keywords :
aircraft maintenance; airports; delays; ground support systems; microwave propagation; multipath channels; radio applications; statistical analysis; 12.25 kHz; 14.78 mus; 5.8 GHz; SHF; aircraft maintenance; aircraft servicing; airline efficiency; airline flight schedules; airport ramp measurements; airport surface management; airport surface operations; coherence bandwidth; delay spreads; diversity gain; gate scheduling; multipath propagation measurements; optimized wireless communication system; radio environment; radio propagation measurements; spread-spectrum systems; statistical characterizations; taxi operations; wireless channel; wireless communication system design; Airports; Antenna measurements; Bandwidth; Frequency; Microwave antennas; Pulse amplifiers; Radio transmitters; Signal generators; Spirals; Wireless communication;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 2000. ICC 2000. 2000 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6283-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.2000.853756
