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Real-Time Ground-Based Flight Data and Cockpit Voice Recorder
Unique text determining the feasibility for implementation and manufacture of ground-based black box systems
Real-Time Ground-Based Flight Data and Cockpit Voice Recorder helps familiarize the reader with the nature of issues surrounding existing black box technology integrated on aircrafts and to understand the benefits and importance of proposed real-time ground-based alternative solutions. These are based on predicting aircraft problems while in flight, including understanding the feasibility of using the already existing space and ground-based wireless technologies infrastructures for this purpose.
The authors discuss expense reductions in the crash investigation when implementing the new concepts in this book as compared to existing procedures when aircraft accidents occur. The text also opens new research ideas for future investigations. Simulation codes are included to allow for further independent exploration into the covered concepts and ideas.
Topics covered in the book include:
* Satellite Data Transfer Implementation, including basics of the technology, channel data rate, PSTN-based satellite implementation, and expected availability of spectrum
* Very High Frequency Digital Link (VDL), including modes, sublayers, data transfer, packet and frame structure, and number of channels needed to support a certain number of airplanes
* Modern Airplane Communication Technologies (including direct air-to-ground communication using 5G) and terahertz band communications; and their integration into aviation communications
* Black box final architecture and connectivity, including ground and UAV connectivity, and general black box wireless communications challenges
For aviation industrial engineers and technical staff, managers, and aerospace and academic researchers, Real-Time Ground-Based Flight Data and Cockpit Voice Recorder is a valuable guide to existing and future technology to successfully predict aircraft problems during flight.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
About the Authors xiii
Foreword xv
Preface xix
Acknowledgments xxiii
Acronyms xxv
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Motivation 1
1.2 Entities Involved in Air Crash Investigations 5
1.2.1 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 5
1.2.2 National Transportation Board (NTSB) 6
1.2.3 Operator (Airline) 6
1.2.4 Equipment Manufacturer 7
1.3 Existing Traditional FDR/CVR 7
1.3.1 Traditional FDR/CVR History 8
1.3.2 Flight Data Recorder (FDR) 9
1.3.3 The Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) 12
1.3.4 Other Types of Recorders 13
1.3.4.1 Deployable Recorders 13
1.3.4.2 Combined Recorders 14
1.3.4.3 Image Recorders 14
1.4 Real-Time Data Transmission as a Solution 14
1.5 System Capacity Requirements 15
1.6 Summary 15
2 State of the Art 19
2.1 Preceding Research 19
2.2 Wireless FDR/CVR Products in Market 22
2.2.1 Honeywell Connected Recorder 22
2.2.1.1 Honeywell Connected Recorder (HCR-25) Specifications 23
2.2.2 FLYHTStream 23
2.2.2.1 FLYHT AFIRS 228 Family Specifications 25
2.3 Wireless FDR/CVR Challenges 26
2.3.1 The Cost Aspect 26
2.3.2 Industry Factors 26
2.3.3 Lack of Regulations 27
2.4 Summary 27
3 Aviation Communication Overview 31
3.1 History 31
3.1.1 Wireless Telegraphy Era 32
3.1.2 Analog Radio Communication Era 33
3.1.3 Digital Radio Communication Era 34
3.1.4 Digital Data Link Era 34
3.2 Communication Traffic Classes 35
3.3 Main Actors and Organizations 37
3.3.1 Aviation Authorities 37
3.3.2 Air Transport Industry 37
3.3.3 Aviation Datalink Service Providers 38
3.3.4 Aviation Stakeholders 38
3.3.4.1 ANSPs 38
3.3.4.2 Airlines 38
3.3.4.3 Meteorological Centers 39
3.4 Spectrum Allocation to Aeronautical Services 39
3.5 Air-to-Air Communications 41
3.5.1 TCAS Communications 41
3.5.2 VHF Communications 42
3.5.3 ADS-B Air-to-Air Communications 42
3.6 Air-to-Ground Communications 43
3.6.1 HF Air-to-Ground Communications 43
3.6.2 Satellite Communications (SATCOM) 45
3.6.3 VHF Data Broadcast (VDB) Communications 46
3.6.4 ADS-B/ADS-R/TIS-B Air-to-Ground Communications 47
3.7 Summary 48
4 Satellite Data Transfer Implementation 51
4.1 The Iridium Satellite System 51
4.2 Iridium First Generation 52
4.2.1 Technical Description 52
4.2.2 Channels 55
4.2.3 Channel Data Rate 56
4.3 Second Generation 58
4.3.1 Orbit 60
4.3.2 Spacecraft 61
4.3.3 Characteristics and Communication Links 62
4.3.3.1 The Subscriber Links 63
4.3.3.2 The Feeder Links 64
4.3.3.3 The Inter-Satellite Links 64
4.3.3.4 The Telemetry, Tracking, and Commanding (TT&C) Links 65
4.3.4 Band Frequency Reuse 65
4.3.4.1 TDMA Frame Structure 65
4.4 PSTN-Based Data Transfer Implementation: One Channel per Aircraft 66
4.5 Alternative Satellite Transmission Implementations 68
4.5.1 Fixed Slot Allocation per Aircraft per Burst 68
4.5.1.1 Slots per Burst Data Transfer 70
4.5.2 Single Second Bursts with Variable Slot Assignment per Frame 74
4.5.2.1 Single Second Burst Data Transmission 76
4.6 Data Transfer - Internet Protocol over Satellite Link Data Transmiss
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Mustafa M. Matalgah received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1996 from the University of Missouri, Columbia, USA, and has extensive industry and academic experience in wireless communications. Since August 2002, he has been with the University of Mississippi in Oxford, USA, where he is now a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Mohammed Ali Alqodah is a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at the University of Mississippi, USA.
