Considerations for Improving the Capacity and Performance of AeroMACS

The Aeronautical Mobile Airport Communications System (AeroMACS) has progressed from concept through prototype development, testing, and standards development and is now poised for the first operational deployments at nine U.S. airports by the Federal Aviation Administration. These initial deployments will support fixed applications. Mobile applications providing connectivity to and from aircraft and ground-based vehicles on the airport surface will occur at some point in the future. Given that many fixed applications are possible for AeroMACS, it is necessary to now consider whether the existing capacity of AeroMACS will be reached even before the mobile applications are ready to be added, since AeroMACS is constrained by both available bandwidth and transmit power limitations. This paper describes some concepts that may be applied to improve the future capacity of AeroMACS, with a particular emphasis on gains that can be derived from the addition of IEEE 802.16j multihop relays to the AeroMACS standard, where a significant analysis effort has been undertaken.

• Record URL:
  http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20140005662.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  Glenn Research Center, 21000 Brookpark Road
  Cleveland, OH  United States  44135

  Mercer University

  School of Engineering
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  Macon, GA  United States  31207

  Verizon Business

  Cleveland, OH  United States  44135
• Authors:
  • Kerczewski, Robert J
  • Kamali, Behnam
  • Apaza, Rafael D
  • Wilson, Jeffrey D
  • Dimond, Robert P
• Publication Date: 2014-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Photos; References;
• Pagination: 23p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airports; Microwave communication systems; Radio relay systems; Standards; Transmission
• Identifier Terms: Aeronautical Mobile Airport Communications System (AeroMACS); Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX)
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Data and Information Technology; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01541451
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 21 2014 2:09PM