1. International Civil Aviation Organization
INFORMATION PAPER
ACP-WG-M21/IP-04
July 17-18, 2014
AERONAUTICAL COMMUNICATIONS PANEL (ACP)
21st MEETING OF WORKING GROUP M
Montreal, Canada July , 2014
Agenda Item: 5
Future AEEC Supplement 7 change/update categories
(Presented by: Peter Muraca, FAA)
SUMMARY
This information paper is intended to provide awareness towards possible Future updates to the VDL Mode 2 Technical Manual resulting from AEEC characteristics supplemental changes/updates.

2. Future AEEC 631 Supplement 7 Update categories
Agenda
Future AEEC 631 Supplement 7 Update categories
Affecting harmonized documents 2 2 2

3. Future AEEC 631-7 Update Categories
Multi-frequency Enhancement
Issues and Enhancements identified by the committee for ARINC supplement
Key technical issues experienced in Link operations
Identified issues would eventually be worked through AEEC 631 committee
Performance Improvement
Improve network performance using separate timers and counters for certain control frames (Further analysis on the effectiveness needed)
Monitoring
Downlink aircraft sensed Channel Utilization
Downlink software build information
Ground Station Address Allocation Update
Other…

4. Affecting harmonized documents
Such categories within AEEC 631 supplements would drive changes to Doc 9776, and:
RTCA MASPS/MOPS,EUROCAE MOPS in order to maintain the harmonization aspects of VDL Mode 2 standards