Modeling of Air/Ground Air
Traffic Control Communications for Fast-Time Simulation
May 2006
Leone C. Monticone, The MITRE Corporation
Richard E. Snow, The MITRE Corporation
Paul T. R. Wang, The MITRE Corporation
ABSTRACT
A fast-time simulation model of air traffic in the National Airspace
System (NAS), developed by the Center for Advanced Aviation System Development
(CAASD) of The MITRE Corporation, has been used over the past several
years for capacity and delay analyses. Prior to the effort documented
in this paper, this model did not explicitly account for the communications
events that transpire, and the related communications messages that
would ensue, as the simulated aircraft are moving through the NAS. The
model did account for overall controller workload, which incorporates
communications workload, in an abstract sense. In order to properly
engineer current and future air/ground (A/G) communications systems,
it is necessary to explicitly quantify the communications traffic that
those systems support. This paper describes the capability added to
the simulation model during fiscal year 2005 (FY2005) to identify communications
message triggering events, and to generate the appropriate voice or
data communications messages. This work was facilitated through the
MITRE Sponsored Research (MSR) Program of the MITRE Technology Program.
Additional Search Keywords
Air/Ground Communications, ATN, Air Traffic Control, CPDLC, Fast-Time
Simulation
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