Enhanced data link communication over iridium
First Claim
1. A method to reduce latency in a data link communication, the method comprising:
- compressing a data packet to be uplinked from a ground station to an aircraft-communications-addressing-and-reporting-system (ACARS) device in an aircraft, the aircraft-communications-addressing-and-reporting-system device configured to receive packets having a packet size less than or equal to a first threshold packet size;
determining a packet size of the compressed data packet;
when the packet size exceeds a second threshold packet size, transmitting the compressed data packet over an uplink via an Iridium-router-based-unrestricted-digital-inter-working-connectivity-solution-data service; and
when the packet size is less than or equal to the second threshold packet size, transmitting the compressed data packet over the uplink via a short-burst-data service.
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Abstract
A method to reduce latency in a data link communication is provided. The method includes compressing a data packet to be uplinked from a ground station to an aircraft communications addressing and reporting system (ACARS) in an aircraft and determining a packet size of the data packet. The aircraft communications addressing and reporting system is configured to receive packets having a packet size less than or equal to a first threshold packet size. An Iridium router based unrestricted digital inter-working connectivity solution data service is implemented to uplink the compressed data packet if the packet size exceeds a second threshold packet size. A short burst data service is implemented to uplink the compressed data packet if the packet size is less than or equal to the second threshold packet size.
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20 Claims
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1. A method to reduce latency in a data link communication, the method comprising:
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compressing a data packet to be uplinked from a ground station to an aircraft-communications-addressing-and-reporting-system (ACARS) device in an aircraft, the aircraft-communications-addressing-and-reporting-system device configured to receive packets having a packet size less than or equal to a first threshold packet size; determining a packet size of the compressed data packet; when the packet size exceeds a second threshold packet size, transmitting the compressed data packet over an uplink via an Iridium-router-based-unrestricted-digital-inter-working-connectivity-solution-data service; and when the packet size is less than or equal to the second threshold packet size, transmitting the compressed data packet over the uplink via a short-burst-data service. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A system to enhance data link communication, the system comprising:
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an aircraft-communications-addressing-and-reporting-system (ACARS) device onboard an aircraft, the aircraft-communications-addressing-and-reporting-system device configured to receive packets having a packet size less than or equal to a first threshold packet size; an Iridium satellite transceiver onboard the aircraft, the Iridium satellite transceiver communicatively coupled to the aircraft-communications-addressing-and-reporting-system device and configured to transmit via one of an Iridium-router-based-unrestricted-digital-inter-working-connectivity-solution-data service (RUDICS) or a short-burst-data (SBD) service, the transmission being based on a packet size of a received data packet, the Iridium satellite transceiver including a processor to execute software to; decompress an uplinked data packet; and if the decompressed uplinked data packet has a packet size greater than the first threshold packet size, multi-block the decompressed uplinked data packet into a plurality of blocks, each block having less than the first threshold packet size, wherein the Iridium satellite transceiver sequentially sends the plurality of blocks to the aircraft-communications-addressing-and-reporting-system device. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method to reduce latency in a data link communication, the method comprising:
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determining a packet size of a data packet to be uplinked from a ground station to an aircraft-communications-addressing-and-reporting-system (ACARS) device in an aircraft, the aircraft-communications-addressing-and-reporting-system device configured to receive packets having packet size less than or equal to a first threshold packet size; when the packet size is less than or equal to a second threshold packet size, transmitting the data packet over an uplink via a short-burst-data service; and when the packet size is greater than the second threshold packet size, transmitting the data packet over the uplink via an Iridium-router-based-unrestricted-digital-inter-working-connectivity-solution-data service. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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