Aeronautical Telecommunications Networks ─ Advances, Challenges, and Modeling

This book explores how to improve capacity and relieve congestion of modern-day air traffic, and to increase the ability for mobile aircraft to communicate efficiently with ground networks. It emphasizes the advances, challenges, and modeling of ATN. The book covers MIPv6 as a core of mobility management mechanism for the aeronautical environment. It examines the simulated performance of VDL Mode 2, investigates the ATM system cyber-attacks since 9/11, and examines the current security situation of ATM information systems related to safety in air transportation.

Sarhan M. Musa, PhD, is currently an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Technology, Roy G. Perry College of Engineering, at Prairie View A&M University, Texas. He has been director of Prairie View A&M Avaya Networking Academy, Texas, since 2004. Dr. Musa has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He is a frequent invited speaker, has consulted for organizations around the world, and has written and edited several books. Dr. Musa is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and is also an LTD Sprint and a Boeing Welliver fellow.

Zhijun Wu, PhD, currently serves as a professor in the School of Electronics and Information Engineering Technology at Civil Aviation University of China (CAUC), Tianjin, China. He has been director of CNS/ATM Institute, CAUC, since 2006. Professor Zhijun Wu has published more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He is a frequent invited speaker on electronics and information technology, has consulted for multiple organizations nationally and internationally, and has written and edited several books. Professor Zhijun Wu is a senior member of the Institute of Communication, Tianjin, China, and a Boeing Welliver fellow.