Aircraft Network Issue Detection and Ground Reporting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current aircraft communication systems lack effective methods for detecting and reporting network issues across air-ground communication links, making it difficult for ground-based stakeholders to identify and rectify systemic problems affecting communication links.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising aircraft processors that compile and report network event information related to degraded communication links, which is analyzed by a network issue detector to identify systemic problems, enabling ground-based stakeholders to take corrective actions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Difficulty of detecting and measuring
If aircraft communication systems monitor network events locally, then detection capability is improved, but information loss occurs without centralized analysis
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by having aircraft report network events to a ground-based aggregator, which analyzes the data and sends back information about systemic problems. This closed-loop feedback mechanism enables both local detection and centralized analysis, resolving the contradiction between detection capability and information loss.
Solution Approach 2:
A ground-based data aggregator acts as an intermediary between aircraft and stakeholders. It collects network event data from multiple aircraft, performs centralized analysis to identify systemic problems, and provides synthesized information back to stakeholders, preventing information loss while maintaining local detection capabilities.
2Area of stationary object
If multiple aircraft report network events independently, then detection coverage is improved, but difficulty in identifying systemic problems increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges network event data from multiple aircraft at a ground-based aggregator. By combining individual aircraft reports into a centralized data pool, the system maintains wide detection coverage while simplifying systemic problem identification through unified analysis, rather than requiring each aircraft to independently analyze complex multi-aircraft patterns.
Solution Approach 2:
The ground-based aggregator serves as an intermediary that handles the complexity of analyzing aggregated data from multiple aircraft. It processes the combined information to identify systemic problems, reducing the identification complexity for individual aircraft while maintaining comprehensive detection coverage across the fleet.
3Speed
If network monitoring is performed on aircraft, then real-time detection is improved, but ground-based response capability deteriorates without centralized analysis
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by having aircraft continuously monitor and cache network events in real-time. This prepares data for rapid ground-based analysis, enabling both real-time detection at the source and easy ground-based response through pre-processed, organized event data that requires minimal additional processing when issues are identified.
Solution Approach 2:
The ground-based aggregator acts as an intermediary that receives real-time data from aircraft and prepares it for stakeholder response. It organizes and analyzes the incoming data stream, making information easily accessible and actionable for ground-based stakeholders, thus maintaining real-time detection capability while improving response ease.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for detection of network issues and health reporting to ground-based stakeholders are described herein. In exemplary embodiments, a system includes multiple aircraft, wherein an aircraft in the multiple aircraft communicates through one or more communication links. The aircraft includes processors that compile network event information related to degraded communication link events. Further, the aircraft includes memory units that store a degraded link event report and a configuration database, wherein the degraded link event report stores the network event information related to the degraded communication link events as directed the configuration database. The system additionally includes a network issue detector, in communication with the multiple aircraft, which receives degraded link event reports from the multiple aircraft, wherein the network issue detector includes processors that identify systemic degraded data link network problems with the communication links based on context identified in the degraded link event reports.