Diversity reception for aeronautical packet data communications systems
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1. A system for packet data communications for data-oriented applications, the system comprising:
- a plurality of radios, each of the plurality of radios supporting at least one packet-oriented data protocol common to all of the plurality of radios, and each of the plurality of radios comprising a receiver;
a plurality of antennas in one-to-one communication with the plurality of radios for the packet data communications; and
interwiring means for interconnecting the plurality of radios, wherein;
each of the plurality of radios further comprises a data arbitrator, in communication with the data arbitrators of the others of the plurality of radios through the interwiring means, for requesting shadow reception service for said data-oriented applications from the other radios, controlling the radio associated with that data arbitrator to provide the shadow reception service in response to requests received from the other radios if the radio can provide the shadow reception service with the resources available, and arbitrating among possible multiple copies of a received packet data message associated with one of the data-oriented applications, said possible multiple copies received by the radio'"'"'s receiver or by the interwiring means from the other radios, so that only a first copy of said possible multiple copies is further processed and subsequent copies of said possible multiple copies are not further processed.
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Abstract
This invention is an application of antenna diversity and two or more multi-channel radios, with a novel cooperative sharing strategy among the multi-channel radios, to aeronautical packet data communications and other communications. It offers the following benefits: enhanced data communications performance in a fading environment; enhanced data communications performance at long range; enhanced data communications performance in the presence of cochannel interference; extendable to an arbitrary number of cooperating peer radios; no single point of failure; no increase in pilot workload or change in operational procedures.
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1. A system for packet data communications for data-oriented applications, the system comprising:
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a plurality of radios, each of the plurality of radios supporting at least one packet-oriented data protocol common to all of the plurality of radios, and each of the plurality of radios comprising a receiver;
a plurality of antennas in one-to-one communication with the plurality of radios for the packet data communications; and
interwiring means for interconnecting the plurality of radios, wherein;
each of the plurality of radios further comprises a data arbitrator, in communication with the data arbitrators of the others of the plurality of radios through the interwiring means, for requesting shadow reception service for said data-oriented applications from the other radios, controlling the radio associated with that data arbitrator to provide the shadow reception service in response to requests received from the other radios if the radio can provide the shadow reception service with the resources available, and arbitrating among possible multiple copies of a received packet data message associated with one of the data-oriented applications, said possible multiple copies received by the radio'"'"'s receiver or by the interwiring means from the other radios, so that only a first copy of said possible multiple copies is further processed and subsequent copies of said possible multiple copies are not further processed. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A system for aeronautical communications, the system comprising:
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a plurality of radio LRUs;
a plurality of antennas in one-to-one communication with the plurality of radio LRUs; and
interwiring means for interconnecting the plurality of radio LRUs, wherein;
the plurality of radio LRUs are individually configured to request shadow reception service from other ones of the radio LRUs and to provide the shadow reception service in response to requests received from the other ones of the radio LRUs if said shadow reception service can be provided with resources available, said shadow reception service comprising RF, downcoverted RF or a soft-decision demodulator output signal stream. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16)
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