TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

This is to certify that Mr.Jitendra Gupta, student of final year B.Tech, Electronics & Communication Engineering from Vivekananda Institute of Technology - East has submitted his seminar report under my supervision on Airborne Internet. His work on report was found satisfactory and approved for submission.

Mr. Bhojraj Agarwal

(Designation, ECE department)

Mr. Sandeep Vyas

(HOD, ECE department) Vivekananda Institute of Technology-East

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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I wish to extend my sincere gratitude to my seminar guide, Mr. Bhojraj Agarwal (lecturer, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering) for his valuable guidance and regular encouragement which has been absolutely helpful in successful completion of this seminar. I am indebted to Mr. Sandeep Vyas (HOD, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering) for his valuable support. I am also thankful to all the ECE faculty members for their keen interest and at last my coordinal thanks to my batch mates and friends for their cooperation.

Jitendra Gupta Electronics and Communication VIT-East

PREFACE
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Certificate Acknowledgement Preface Table of Content List of Figures List of Tables Abstract Conclusion References I II III V VI VII VIII

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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ABSTRACT
Airborne internet: The Airborne Internet is network in which all nodes would be located in
aircraft. The network is intended for use in aviation communications, navigation, and surveillance (CNS) and would also be useful to businesses, private Internet users, and military. In time of war, for example, an airborne network might enable military planes to operate without the need for a communications infrastructure on the ground. Such a network could also allow civilian planes to continually monitor each other's positions and flight paths. Airborne Internet is network will serve tens of thousands of subscribers within a super-metropolitan area, by offering ubiquitous access throughout the networks signal "footprint". The aircrafts will carry the "hub" of a wireless network having a star topology. The aircrafts will fly in shifts to provide continuous service, 24 hour per day by 7 days per week, with an overall system reliability of 99.9% or greater. At least three different methods have been proposed for putting communication nodes aloft. The first method would employ manned aircraft, the second method would use unmanned aircraft, and the third method would use blimps. The nodes would provide air-to-air, surface-to-air, and surface-to-surface communications. The aircraft or blimps would fly at altitudes of around 16 km, and would cover regions of about 40 mi (64 mi) in radius. Any subscriber within this region will be able to access the networks ubiquitous multi-gigabit per second "bit cloud" upon demand. what the airborne internet will do is provide an infrastructure that can reach areas that don't have broadband cables & wires. Data transfer rates would be on the order of several gigabits per second, comparable to those of high-speed cable modem connections. Network users could communicate directly with other users, and indirectly with conventional Internet users through surface-based nodes. Like the Internet, the Airborne Network would use TCP/IP as the set of protocols for specifying network addresses and ensuring message packets arrive. This technology is also called High Altitude Long Operation (HALO) The concept of the Airborne Internet was first proposed at NASA Langley Research Center's Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) Planning Conference in 1999 Airborne Internet is a concept that overlays computer network theory and principles into the transportation realm. The goal is to create information connectivity by providing a general purpose, multi-application data channel for people in transit. When people travel, they experience connectivity down time in which they are detached from the information that their network provided. Wireless networks, are rapidly emerging to help fill this void.. The human connectivity imperative shows us a glaring absence of network connectivity during travel. While in motion on an aircraft, people lose the ability to connect to the outside world. We design transportation systems to interconnect to complimentary forms of transportation. But these designs have ignored the information connectivity needs of the people who use it. The time people spend in transit could be turned into more productive time if network connectivity were available. Airborne Internet would be a high-speed digital network. Information would be passed between aircrafts and the ground by the Internet. The aircrafts and the ground facilities would be the
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nodes in the network. Aircraft pilots would let the traffic controllers know where they are through the network. The network would give the crew information that would help them avoid collisions. It would also allow information to be sent from aircraft to aircraft without having to go through ground facilities. The system could also be used to send safety warnings to aircraft. Development of the Airborne Internet has already begun. The system itself has been tested to make sure that it would work as planned. Now, the technology has been turned over to SATS (Small Aircraft Transportation System) planners. The planners will make sure that it would meet the needs of a small aircraft transportation system. The days of it being common to fly your own airplane to visit family for the holidays are not here yet. But, NASA is working to make those days a reality. And, the technology to make that happen safely is already being developed.

Fig.1Airborne-Internet systems will require that an antenna be attached to the side of your house or work place.

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