A study of future communications concepts and technologies for the National Airspace System-part IV

Author

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

Author_Institution

NASA Glenn Res. Center, Cleveland, OH, USA

fYear

2015

fDate

7-14 March 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

13

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 the final results describing the communications challenges and opportunities that have been identified as part of the study.

Keywords

aircraft communication; cellular radio; high altitude stratospheric platforms; satellite communication; HAP-based cellular network; NASA GRC; NASA Glenn Research Center; NASA Research Announcements; National Aeronautics and Space Administration; National Airspace System; air-to-air data exchange; aircraft-to-aircraft communication network; communications concept; ground-based cellular network; post-NextGen NAS environment; satellite network; Jamming; Radio frequency; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 2015 IEEE

Conference_Location

Big Sky, MT

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5379-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.2015.7118934

Filename

7118934