Assessment of the suitability of public mobile data networks for aircraft telemetry and control purposes

This paper provides a review of the state of the art of relevant work on the use of public mobile data networks for aircraft telemetry and control proposes. Moreover, it describes the characterisation for airborne uses of the public mobile data communication systems known broadly as 3G. The motivation for this study was to explore how this mature public communication systems could be used for aviation purposes. An experimental system was fitted to a light aircraft to record communication latency, line speed, RF level, packet loss and cell tower identifier. Communications was established using internet protocols and connection was made to a local server. The aircraft was flown in both remote and populous areas at altitudes up to 8500 ft in a region located in South East Queensland, Australia. Results show that the average airborne RF levels are better than those on the ground by 21% and in the order of −77 dbm. Latencies were in the order of 500 ms (1/2 the latency of Iridium), an average download speed of 0.48 Mb/s, average uplink speed of 0.85 Mb/s, a packet of information loss of 6.5%. The maximum communication range was also observed to be 70 km from a single cell station. The paper also describes possible limitations and utility of using such communications architecture for both manned and unmanned aircraft systems.     

正弦型来流条件下大气表面层特性的研究

导出了正弦来流条件下的大气表面层平均风速及湍流强度的计算式。在环境风洞中使用粒子图像速度仪（PIV）对正弦来流条件下的大气表面层平均风速廓线和湍流强度进行了测量。结果表明：正弦型来流条件下所模拟的大气表面层在不同高度上风速均呈正弦规律波动,测量得到平均风速与导出计算式结果一致,相当于在定常风速廓线基础上叠加一个周期与主流风速一致、振幅随高度变化的正弦波动函数。每一个相位的湍流强度沿高度的分布均与定常来流条件下的湍流强度有着相似的变化规律,且湍流强度的大小随相位变化呈现一定的波动性。