Wireless aircraft network and method for wirelessly connecting aircraft in a network
First Claim
1. A wireless aircraft network, comprising:
- a plurality of aircrafts having transceiver devices for transceiving wireless communication;
a plurality of ground-based network stations having transceiver devices for transceiving wireless communication; and
a network operator station configured to store location data regarding the current geographical location of the plurality of aircrafts in a location data table of the network operator station and to determine a most efficient network path for each of the plurality of aircrafts to one of the plurality of ground-based network stations depending on the current geographical location of the plurality of aircraft and the geographical location of the plurality of ground-based network stations,wherein the network operator station is further configured to build up a current dynamically changing network topology from the determined most efficient paths and to provide the determined most efficient paths to each of the plurality of aircrafts as route discovery information.
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Abstract
A wireless aircraft network includes a plurality of aircrafts having transceiver devices for transceiving wireless communication, a plurality of ground-based network stations having transceiver devices for transceiving wireless communication, and a network operator station configured to store location data regarding the current geographical location of the plurality of aircrafts in a location data table of the network operator station and to determine a most efficient network path for each of the plurality of aircrafts to one of a plurality of ground-based network stations depending on the current geographical location of the plurality of aircrafts and the geographical location of the plurality of ground-based network stations.
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12 Claims
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1. A wireless aircraft network, comprising:
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a plurality of aircrafts having transceiver devices for transceiving wireless communication; a plurality of ground-based network stations having transceiver devices for transceiving wireless communication; and a network operator station configured to store location data regarding the current geographical location of the plurality of aircrafts in a location data table of the network operator station and to determine a most efficient network path for each of the plurality of aircrafts to one of the plurality of ground-based network stations depending on the current geographical location of the plurality of aircraft and the geographical location of the plurality of ground-based network stations, wherein the network operator station is further configured to build up a current dynamically changing network topology from the determined most efficient paths and to provide the determined most efficient paths to each of the plurality of aircrafts as route discovery information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A method for wirelessly connecting aircraft, comprising:
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receiving location data regarding the current geographical location of a plurality of aircrafts in a network operator station; updating a location data table of the network operator station according to the received location data; reading out the current geographical locations of the plurality of aircrafts from the location data table and determining a most efficient path for each of the plurality of aircrafts to one of a plurality of ground-based network stations depending on the read out current geographical locations of the plurality of aircrafts and the geographical locations of the plurality of ground-based network stations in the network operator station; building up a current dynamically changing network topology from the determined most efficient paths; providing the determined most efficient paths to each of the plurality of aircrafts as route discovery information for an aircraft ad-hoc network; and connecting one or more of the plurality of aircrafts in an aircraft ad-hoc network according to the provided route discovery information. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8)
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9. A network operator station for an aircraft ad-hoc network, the operator station comprising:
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a location management module configured to receive location data regarding the current geographical location of a plurality of aircrafts and to update a location data table according to the received location data; and a control module configured to read out the current geographical locations of the plurality of aircrafts from the location data table, to determine a most efficient path for each of the plurality of aircrafts to one of a plurality of ground-based network stations depending on the read out current geographical locations of the plurality of aircrafts and the geographical locations of the plurality of ground-based network stations, to build up a current dynamically changing network topology from the determined most efficient paths and to provide the determined most efficient paths to each of the plurality of aircrafts as route discovery information for the aircraft ad-hoc network. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12)
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