Affiliations: German Aerospace Center (DLR), P.O. Box 1116, 82234 Wessling, Germany. E-mail: {christian.kissling, cristina.parraga, nuria.riera, sandro.scalise}@dlr.de
Note: [] Corresponding author: C. Kissling, German Aerospace Center (DLR), P.O. Box 1116, 82234 Wessling, Germany. Tel.: +49 8153 282891; Fax: +49 8153 282844; E-mail: christian.kissling@dlr.de
Abstract: Safe flying in a future, crowded airspace will require significantly increased volumes of information exchanges, as well as reliable and adequate transfer mechanisms for both the air/ground and the air/air segments. However, current communications systems will not be able to support the estimated traffic growth using today's operational data links or the upcoming data links already under development. A new Air Traffic Management communications infrastructure is hence required. A very likely scenario for forthcoming aircraft communication includes satellite links as an essential component in order to meet the QoS requirements in terms of coverage, availability, priority and integrity. This work evaluates the suitability of DVB-S2/RCS for the provision of Air Traffic Management services and discusses possible designs for network architecture, resource management concepts and security issues.
