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Plane
Networks
Traffic Model
Traffic model tells us when and where to put the right amount of capacity to drive up system efficiency and drive down system cost.
As flights go in and out of beams, passenger count and Internet traffic rise and fall. Traffic model quantifies the variations and the outputs feed the system design, from which reasonable cost estimates can be derived.
Estimated demand and RF power over:
Sample 3-hr period (minute-by-minute) in 4 beams over US for a single airline​
Single Airline
C258: New York
500 - 3200 Mbps
5 - 38 W
C174: Chicago
400 - 2500 Mbps
4 - 32 W
C161: Western Wyoming
0 - 700 Mbps
0 - 11 W
C508: Houston
250-2600 Mbps
3 - 32 W
Single Airline
We can sum the data rate and RF power for the major airlines (Southwest, Delta, American, United, JetBlue, Alaska, Spirit, Frontier, Air Canada, WestJet) in a cell and calculate the maximum for each day over an arbitrary period (7-month period shown below).
Aggregate Data Rate
Aggregate Power
Aggregate Flights
Aggregate Passengers
For each day Figures above depict maximum instantaneous (in 4 beams):
Data rate
RF power
Passenger count
Flight count
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