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Advanced Technologies for Networking in Avionic Applications
Two groups of the institute are contributing to ATENAA: The Optical Communications Group inside section Digital Networks and the Antenna Group of section Navigation.
The ATENAA project is aimed at the following objectives:
- Define the concept for a future networked avionic environment including both moving platforms (aircraft and satellites), ground infrastructures and the related users and communication systems
- Evaluate and develop the technologies needed for the management and the security of the avionic network
- Assess a common set of requirements and the HW and SW technologies needed for:
- enhancing the performances of present avionic communication systems (in terms of efficiency, transmission speed, etc.)
- implementing the future avionic communication systems to be used in the avionic network
- Test and validate emerging communications technologies against their applicability in the realisation of broadband communication systems for the avionic networked environment:
- HW technologies for Ka-band communication systems (with particular reference to TX and RX avionic phased array antenna realisation)
- HW technologies for optical communication systems (both for outside-aircraft data links realisation and for inside-aircraft broadband bus implementation)
- Evaluate the overall performances and define a common baseline for the future demonstration and implementation of the avionic network
The Optical Communications Group is contributing on...
- Studying the applicability of free-space optical link technology for highspeed avionic communications
- Outer optical link communications system architecture
- Setting up a demonstrator for outer optical link validation
The acitivities of the Antenna Group include
- Subsystem specifications for Tx-antenna
- Radiating element selection
- Array definition and simulations
- Array design and integration
- Study and simulations
- Antenna test and validation