ITU-T Focus Group on Aviation Applications of Cloud Computing for Flight Data Monitoring … Avionics and Aviation Communications Systems

Foreword
1. Executive summary
2. Background and context
3. Structure of the Report
4. Relationship with other FG AC working groups
5. Definitions
6. Real-time transmission
7. Assumptions

7.1 Introduction
7.2 Definition of real-time data
7.3 Categories of flight data

8. Real-time data transmission performance

8.1 Introduction
8.2 Background
8.3 Data streaming
8.4 Bandwidth needs analysis for real-time flight data transmission and data link systems performance summary
8.5 Conclusions

9. Ground-based systems and services infrastructure

9.1 Current infrastructure
9.2 Ground-based infrastructure

10. On-board infrastructure

10.1 On-board information systems infrastructure
10.2 On-board aircraft surveillance and tracking infrastructure

11. On-board data link infrastructure

11.1 Current
11.2 On-board data link infrastructure – Future

12. Issues and limitations

12.1 Introduction
12.2 Future data stream solutions
12.3 Data compression
12.4 Cybersecurity

13. Recommendations and conclusions

13.1 Recommendations
13.2 Conclusions

14. Acronyms and abbreviations
15. References
Appendix 1: Summary of ground-based infrastructure capabilities
Appendix 2: ADS-B mandates
Appendix 3: Summary of data link systems profiles and performance
Appendix 4: Analysis of global bandwidth and cloud storage required to support black box streaming

Continuous data streaming analysis

Appendix 5: WG4 composition
Table 1 Technology profiles for Terrestrial Data Link Technologies
Table 2 Technology profiles for Satellite Data Link Technologies
Figure 1 – Diagram illustrating aircraft access to SWIM (AAtS) (picture courtesy of SESAR Joint Undertaking)