Telemetry Data On Demand: The Key to Understanding the Telemetry Network Revolution

Abstract

The telemetry network revolution takes aeronautical flight testing from a broadcast-only paradigm to a TM-data-on-demand paradigm. This paper explores this paradigm shift, focusing on fundamental architectural changes enabled by incorporating telemetry networking technologies into a flight test system. Two concepts are presented to help understand the TM-data-on-demand paradigm: retrieving and processing recorded data from a test article during a mission and onboard dynamic data analysis and compression. An example flight test system with both SST and TmNS components provides a foundation to further explore the paradigm-shifting capabilities a telemetry network brings to flight test. In addition to TM-data-on-demand, the current static spectrum allocation methodology must also be replaced with a more agile, bandwidth-on-demand paradigm. When both TM-data-on-demand and bandwidth-on-demand capabilities have been realized, a new era of efficient flight testing will emerge.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1058329

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People

  • Carl Reinwald

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Bandwidth
  • Communication Systems
  • Compression
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Compression
  • Data Processing
  • Data Set
  • Data Transmission
  • Department Of Defense
  • Digital Data
  • Display Systems
  • Flight Testing
  • Ground Control Stations
  • High Definition Television
  • High Resolution
  • Information Operations
  • Low Resolution
  • Measurement
  • Multiple Access
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Revolutions
  • Spectra
  • Telemetry
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Time Division Multiple Access

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Computer Networking
  • Systems Analysis and Design