Policy on Intellectual Property Right (IPR)
1 Introduction and scope
2 General system descriptions and terminology
2.1 Terminology
2.2 Classification of air spaces
2.3 Required radiocommunications for safe operations of UA
2.3.1 Types of radiocommunications links
2.3.2 Radiocommunications for air traffic control relay
2.3.3 Required radiocommunications for command and
control
2.3.4 Required radiocommunications in support of “sense
and avoid”
2.4 Other considerations
3 Unmanned aircraft categories
4 UAS applications
5 Spectrum requirements for UAS communications
5.1 Single UA throughput needs
5.1.1 Methodology 1
5.1.2 Methodology 2
5.2 UAS deployment scenario
5.2.1 Methodology 1
5.2.2 Methodology 2
5.3 Aggregate assessment of UAS spectrum needs
5.3.1 Methodology 1
5.3.2 Methodology 2
6 Summary of results of Methodologies 1 and 2
7 Conclusion
Annex 1 Throughput requirements for control and non-payload communications of
a single unmanned aircraft
1 Introduction
1.1 Information flows
1.2 Data loading requirements
1.2.1 UACS/UA command and control links
1.2.2 Navigational aids
1.2.3 ATC voice relay
1.2.4 ATS data relay
1.2.5 Surveillance data
1.2.6 Summary of loading requirements
1.3 Overhead and throughput
1.3.1 Control links, NavAids, and non-video
surveillance
1.3.2 Other types of traffic
1.3.3 Throughput requirements
Appendix 1 of Annex 1 Loading requirements for UACS/UA command and control
links
Appendix 2 of Annex 1 Loading requirements for NavAid data links
Annex 2 UAS deployment scenario
1 Methodology 1
2 Methodology 2
2.1 Introduction
2.2 UAS operations and UA categorization
2.2.1 Primary
operational functions
2.2.2 Surface
environment
2.2.3 Airborne
environment
2.2.4 UAS
mission characteristics and phases of flight
2.2.5 UA categorization
2.3 Projected UA
population
2.3.1 UAS use
segments
2.3.2
Government use segment
2.3.3
Commercial use segment
2.3.4 Example
of quantity of UAS available to operate by 2030
2.4 Deployment and disposition of projected UAS
population
2.4.1
Geographically uniform deployment scenario
2.4.2
Non-geographically uniform deployment scenarios
Annex 3 Aggregate bandwidth requirements for command and control, for support
of sense and avoid, and ATC relay of unmanned aircraft
1 Methodology 1
1.1 General description of the approach
1.2 Redundancy factor, utilization factor and system wide frequency
assignment efficiency
1.3 Reuse factor
1.3.1 Terrestrial
1.3.2 Satellite
1.4 Results of the aggregate spectrum requirement
Appendix 1 to Methodology 1
1 Methodology 2
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Aggregate bandwidth requirements of a LoS
terrestrial system
1.3 Aggregate bandwidth requirements of a BLoS
spot-beam satellite system
1.4 Aggregate bandwidth requirements of a BLoS
regional-beam satellite system
2 Summary of Methodology 2 results
Annex 4 Airspace classes, services and flight requirements
Annex 5 Acronyms