In-cabin Deterministic Channel Modelling: a Satellite to Aircraft Link Extension

Kurzfassung

The increasing demand of air travellers for real-time wireless communications on-board aircraft requires accurate and efficient propagation prediction for network design and assessment. The range of demanded applications may be as wide as those daily used on-ground with the mobile component: mobile telephony connectivity, wireless internet access, wireless broadcast services, etc., and can even increase in the future. To provide worldwide connectivity to ground services a satellite link is envisaged. From this new paradigm arises a new niche market for mobile satellite applications with two completely different challenging design sides: the satellite link and the in-cabin network, each with its particular architecture constraints, requirements and characteristics. This paper deals with the study of in-cabin propagation based on a ray tracing approach validated with site-measurement data in a long range aircraft.