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Abstract

NASA's Runway Incursion Prevention System (RIPS) was tested between September and October 2000 at the Dallas Fort-Worth International Airport (DFW). Controller-Pilot Datalink Communications (CPDLC) represented one component of the RIPS program. Air traffic controllers relayed surface operations instructions to NASA's 757 research aircraft via a Controller Communications and Situational Awareness Terminal (C-CAST). The Onyx mainframe computer aboard the 757 decoded these messages and sent automatic acknowledgements back to the C-CAST. The CPDLC messages were sent over a datalink utilizing the ICAO-defined VHF Digital Link (VDL) Mode 2 protocol. This paper presents implementation and performance details of the datalink. The paper describes the VDL Mode 2 protocol, the overall architecture of the CPDLC system, hardware-software interfacing details, CPDLC message formats, signal coverage data for the DFW airport, and design details of the Airborne Datalink Manager (ADLM) software used for this work.

Original document

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• https://zenodo.org/record/1267096 under the license https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/

• https://zenodo.org/record/1267096/files/article.pdf

• http://xplorestaging.ieee.org/ielx5/7625/20788/00963335.pdf?arnumber=963335,

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/dasc.2001.963335 under the license cc0

• https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/963335,

https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2168248306