TY - CHAP U1 - Konferenzveröffentlichung A1 - Schüssele, Lothar A1 - Felhauer, Tobias A1 - Christ, Andreas A1 - Klausmann, Tobias A1 - Kaufmann, Amdreas A1 - Gerold, Andreas T1 - A Novel Broadband Communication System for Aircraft In-flight Entertainment Applications T2 - 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB) N2 - In large aircrafts the cabling is very complex and often causes reliability problems. This is specially true for modern In-flight Entertainment (IFE) systems, where every passenger can select a preferred movie, play computer games or be able to communicate with other travellers. Due to EMC problems, wireless communication systems (WiFi etc.) didn't succeed in solving these problems. In this paper an innovative communication system is proposed which perfectly supplements an aircraft IFE system. The key innovation of this system is to use structures that are essential parts of the airframe for data transfer, such as seat rails. Those rails consist of rectangular shapes and could easily be modified to fulfill the function of waveguides for microwaves. A waveguide as part of the seat rail would provide enormous benefits for aircrafts, such as a large bandwidth and consequently high data rates, no problems with EMC, unlimited flexibility of seat configuration, mechanical robustness with associated increase of reliability and a few additional advantages related to aircrafts such as reduction of weight and costs. KW - Downlink KW - Transceivers KW - Coatings KW - Couplings KW - Electromagnetic compatibility KW - Beschichtung KW - Kupplung Y1 - 2011 UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5954929 SN - 2155-5052 (Electronic) SS - 2155-5052 (Electronic) SN - 2155-5044 (Print/Online) SS - 2155-5044 (Print/Online) SN - 978-1-61284-122-9 (Electronic) SB - 978-1-61284-122-9 (Electronic) SN - 978-1-61284-121-2 (Print) SB - 978-1-61284-121-2 (Print) SN - 978-1-61284-120-5 (Online) SB - 978-1-61284-120-5 (Online) U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/BMSB.2011.5954929 DO - https://doi.org/10.1109/BMSB.2011.5954929 SP - 6 S1 - 6 PB - IEEE ER -