We recommend suitable transport protocols for an aeronautical network supporting Internet and data services via satellite. We study the characteristics of an aeronautical satellite hybrid network and focus on the problems that cause dramatically degraded performance of the Transport Protocol. We discuss various extensions to standard TCP that alleviate some of these performance problems. Throug...

Impact detection in aeronautical structures allows predicting their future reliability and performance. An impact can produce microscopic fissures that could evolve into fractures or even the total collapse of the structure, so it is important to know the location and severity of each impact. For this purpose, optical fibers with Bragg gratings are used to analyze each impact and the vibrations...

Aeronautical communication systems are constantly evolving in order to handle the always increasing flow of data generated by civil aviation. In this article we first present communication systems currently used for en-route aircraft. We then propose Aeronautical Ad hoc NETwork (AANET) as a complementary communication system and demonstrate its connectivity and assess the throughput by simulati...

Aeronautical Telecommunication Network (ATN) has been developed by the International Civil Aviation Organization to integrate Air-Ground and Ground-Ground data communication for aeronautical applications into a single network serving Air TraÆc Control and Aeronautical Operational Communications. To carry time critical information required for aeronautical applications, ATN provides di erent Qua...

From Wright Brothers 1903 to present day 2003, aeronautical technology has made a profound progress. This paper demonstrates the outcome of this progress in weight, wing area, and engine thrust in three categories of transport aircraft of short to long range, regional jets, and turbo-prop commuter aircraft. Also the paper includes those aircraft with distinct jump in aeronautical technology. Fe...

This paper provides an overview of the EUROCONTROL activities and involvement in relation to using satellite communications to support the aviation requirements in the context of the work to define the future aeronautical communications infrastructure. In addition, the paper discusses the key issues that need to be addressed and describes a potential model that could contribute to the greater u...

In this paper, we present a concept for an aeronautical communications simulator based on the discrete event simulation platform OMNeT++. In the aeronautical environment, there is a mutual dependency between the movement of the aircraft and the data traffic that is generated, making an accurate modeling particularly difficult. In addition, such a simulator requires a modular architecture due to...

Abstract: This paper demonstrates the capabilities of the Multi-Level Monte Carlo Methods (MLMC) for the stochastic analysis of CFD aeronautical problems with uncertainties. These capabilities are compared with the classical Monte Carlo Methods in terms of accuracy and computational cost through a set of benchmark test cases. The real possibilities of solving CFD aeronautical analysis with unce...

In this paper we describe an European initiative aiming to establish a broadband Very High Frequency (VHF) aeronautical communications system based on a multi-carrier technology and demonstrate its benefits to the aeronautical community, together with its technological fundamentals. The European research project B-VHF (“Broadband VHF Aeronautical Communications System based on Multi-Carrier Tec...