Call for Papers

The need for increasing safety and efficiency levels in the air transport system requires modern control and traffic management (ATM) systems for aircraft in air and in ground operations, as well as for service vehicles on the airport surface. The related Communications, Navigation and Surveillance (CNS) infrastructures call for enhanced positioning and identification techniques such as Multilateration (MLAT) and Wide Area MLAT - (WAM), automatic dependent surveillance (ADS-B), automatic vehicles location and management (AVMS). These enhanced surveillance means are spatially distributed (i.e. with many receiving or transmitting/receiving stations) and logically distributed (i.e. with local and central processing and with fusion of different information sources, including the traditional primary and secondary radar). In this frame, new system architectures and new algorithms for integrity monitoring and for multi-sensor data fusion are required.
Security and defence systems use similar algorithms for passive locating of targets based on measurements of Time of Arrival (TOA) and its differences (TDOA) as well as of Doppler frequency and its differences (FDOA), possibly combined with angular/direction measurements (AOA/DOA).

The emerging "dual use" concept for surveillance and identification systems and the intrinsically commonalities of location algorithms in the different applications suggested to include the pertaining items in the Symposium topics. Therefore, the National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications of Italy (CNIT) has decided that his 2008 Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications (Capri, 3-5 September 2008) will be devoted to the ESAV® (Enhanced Surveillance of Aircraft and Vehicles) area, with the name TIWDC/ESAV'08.

Deadline for the Call for Papers: January 31st 2008