Research on Airborne Wireless Sensor Network Based on Wi-Fi Technology

Due to the limitation of wired airborne communication network, it has become a trend to explore airborne wireless communication network. With the rapid development of wireless sensing technology, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) issued the Wireless avionics Internal Communication (WAIC) standard. This standard is mainly used to detect the health condition and emergency of the internal and external structures of the aircraft. In this paper, based on the analysis of the research status of wireless airborne internal communication system at home and abroad, aiming at the internal structure of C919 narrow-body single-channel aircraft, a wireless communication scheme based on WI-FI technology and the corresponding wireless network architecture for the real-time monitoring of aircraft status in accordance with WAIC standards are proposed. The simulation results show that the wireless sensor network based on Wi-Fi technology is suitable for WAIC system.