ATENAA - Advanced Technologies for Networking in Avionic Applications

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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