Evaluation of the aircraft distribution in satellite spotbeams

Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Date Issued
2013-10-22
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Petersen, Christoph  orcid-logo
Mühleisen, Maciej  
Timm-Giel, Andreas  orcid-logo
Institut
Kommunikationsnetze E-4  
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/11444
First published in
Lecture notes in computer science  
Number in series
8115 LNCS
Start Page
46
End Page
53
Citation
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8115 LNCS: 46-53 (2013-10-22)
Contribution to Conference
19th EUNICE/IFIP WG 6.6 International Workshop on Advances in Communication Networking, EUNICE 2013  
Publisher DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-40552-5_5
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84885739788
Publisher
Springer
Upcoming inflight entertainment and other onboard data services request broadband data connections during long- and short-haul flights all over the world. To cope with this amount of traffic, especially over oceanic areas where no ground infrastructure is available, satellite systems offer broadband satellite links for avionic purpose. This work analyzes the distribution of aircraft traffic for selected satellite spotbeams for intercontinental, rural and urban scenarios. For this, the statistic properties of the number of arriving and departing aircraft within a time interval are analyzed. Our results show, that the law of small number and therefore a Poisson distribution is only applicable to areas with low air traffic. Aircraft arrivals to- and departures from satellite spotbeams can be modeled using the negative binomial distribution, as proven by presented results.
DDC Class
004: Informatik
600: Technik