Abstract

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 US 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.


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http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/aero.2014.6836412 under the license cc0
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20140005662,
https://repository.exst.jaxa.jp/dspace/handle/a-is/82168,
https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/1965098301
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Published on 01/01/2014

Volume 2014, 2014
DOI: 10.1109/aero.2014.6836412
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