BROADBAND VHF AERONAUTICAL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM BASED ON MC-CDMA (B-VHF)

Project Information

B-VHF

Grant agreement ID: 502910

Project closed

Start date 1 January 2004

End date 30 June 2006

Funded under

• Aeronautics and Space: thematic priority 4 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Total cost € 2 933 939,00

EU contribution € 1 840 172,00

Coordinated by

FREQUENTIS AG
Austria

Objective

Air transport has been identified as a dominant factor for sustainable economic growth of the European Union. The "Vision 2020" clearly points out the cornerstones of a future air transport system and the Advisory Council for ATM Research in Europe (ACARE) elaborates these requirements in depth in their "Strategic Research Agenda”. The key element for achieving an Air Transport System that is capable of meeting future demands is A/G communication. Today, DSB-AM is used for aircraft separation and guidance, a VHF communications technology, which has been introduced in the '40s and utilises the available spectrum in a highly inefficient manner. Eurocontrol’s Communications Strategy indicates the need of alternative communications systems as the saturation point of the current system is reached around 2015 even with full VDL Mode 2 and 8,33kHz deployment. The B-VHF project conducts bottom up research on multi-carrier technology (MC) for aeronautical communications in the VHF band for a future MC broadband VHF (B-VHF) system. The baseline technology is MC-CDMA; a highly innovative, high capacity communications technology also discussed for fourth generation (4G) mobile communications systems. MC-CDMA has the potential to exploit the mobile aeronautical channel better than any currently discussed VHF communication alternative. It increases voice and data capacity and addresses security and safety issues with a service level unknown to the aeronautics user today. Moreover, MC-CDMA has the potential to preserve the excellent cost performance of the VHF band as it may be applied as an overlay system and co-exist with the existing VHF infrastructure, thus providing smooth transition and rollout scenarios. The B-VHF project aims at identifying MC-CDMA as the still missing European approach for the future ATM VHF communication system that supports Single European Sky and the Free-flight concept and leads far beyond 2015 into vision 2020'

Fields of science

• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › electronic engineering › analogue electronics
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › electronic engineering › signal processing
• engineering and technology › mechanical engineering › vehicle engineering › aerospace engineering › aircraft
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › information engineering › telecommunications › telecommunications networks › mobile network › 4G
• engineering and technology › mechanical engineering › vehicle engineering › aerospace engineering › aeronautical engineering

Programme(s)

• FP6-AEROSPACE - Aeronautics and Space: thematic priority 4 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Topic(s)

• AERO-2003-1.3.1.3b - Accident prevention

Call for proposal

FP6-2002-AERO-1
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Funding Scheme

STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project

Coordinator

FREQUENTIS AG

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Innovationsstrasse 1 ; VIENNA ; Austria
• Total cost: No data

Participants (9)

NATS (EN ROUTE) PLC

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 5th Floor South, Brettenham House, Lancaster Place ; LONDON
• Total cost: No data

LUFTHANSA GERMAN AIRLINES

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Von-Gablenz-Strasse 2-6 ; KÖLN
• Total cost: No data

BAE SYSTEMS (OPERATIONS) LTD

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Farnborough Aerospace Centre ; FARNBOROUGH, HAMPSHIRE
• Total cost: No data

SCIENTIFIC GENERICS LTD

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Harston Mill, Harston ; CAMBRIDGE
• Total cost: No data

UNIVERSITEIT GENT

Belgium

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 25 ; GENT
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DEUTSCHE FLUGSICHERUNGS GMBH

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Am DFS-Campus 10 ; LANGEN
• Total cost: No data

UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA

Spain

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: C/ JUAN DE QUESADA 30 ; LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA
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DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FÜR LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT E.V. (GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER)

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Linder Höhe ; KÖLN
• Total cost: No data

UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICIA DE MADRID

Spain

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: C/Ramiro de Maeztu 7 ; MADRID
• Total cost: No data