The Boeing Company

Nathaniel Thomas Horton

Dennis Michael Lewis

Kenneth Patrick Kirchoff

Sudhakar S Shetty

Scott Edward Marston

Del Silva

Zhaofeng Ma

A method for accessing aircraft interference path loss in an aircraft. A plurality of radio frequency signals that are stepped through a plurality of frequencies in a frequency range is transmitted from a plurality of locations within an interior of the aircraft. Radio frequency signals present at a receive antenna are received in response to transmitting the plurality of radio frequency signals to form a plurality of measurements. An average of averages curve is generated from the plurality of measurements. A peak to average ratio is identified. Field uniformity is identified. A standard error for the average of averages curve is determined. An upper bound for the aircraft interference path loss in the aircraft is predicted using the average of averages curve, the peak to average ration, the field uniformity, and the standard error.

Assessing aircraft interference path loss employing discrete frequency stirring

A broadband wireless distribution network for a passenger cabin area of a mobile platform. The broadband wireless distribution network includes a plurality of wireless access points (WAPs) connected to a server and switching system and a plurality of wireless network interface circuits (NICs) strategically located about the passenger cabin. Additionally the broadband wireless distribution network includes a plurality of antennas connected to the WAPs such that at least one antenna is connected to each WAP. The antennas are capable of providing RF coverage patterns to specific overlapping areas within the passenger cabin, thereby allowing communication between each WAP and at least one NIC.

Broadband wireless distribution system for mobile platform interior

The 'discrete frequency stir' (DFS) method provides improved mode stir testing of electromagnetic characteristics of an enclosure/cavity. Adequate sampling of the electric field inside the enclosure/cavity is provided by electronic perturbation or 'stirring' of the field with a short duration, continuous wave, radiated source where the wave frequency is stepped in small steps across a frequency range of interest. The frequency steps are selected to be at least slightly larger than the resonant mode bandwidth associated with the given enclosure/cavity in order to provide statistically independent measurements. A stirring bandwidth is selected to encompass a statistically significant number of these measurement samples while maintaining adequate frequency resolution. A statistical evaluation of the measured field is then performed over this stirring bandwidth. For example, the average field level at a given frequency is determined by averaging over the samples contained within the stirring bandwidth when centered on that frequency.

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Nathaniel Thomas Horton