A Design of an Ip Voice Communication System for Air Traffic Control by Use of Open Source Software
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to suggest a design of an IP based Voice Communication System for Air
Traffic Control by use of Open source software. With the advent of new VOIP standard for Air
Traffic Control, it has resulted in a research opportunity. This research opportunity is driven by
the fact that unlike the old technology we have legacy open source IP telephony software which
can be modified through research to provide necessary VOIP functionalities for Air Traffic Control
voice. Also, this research opportunity is being driven by the fact that Telecommunication service
providers are replacing analog/Time division multiplexing communication links with IP based
communication links. Most Voice communication system manufacturers have ceased investment
and production of the old voice communication system, and therefore the cost of spares are bound
to increase. A subset of the requirements of ED 137 B standard was used in the design of a
prototype.
Design Research as a strategy was employed in this project because it is concerned with design or
improvement of artifacts. The selection of this strategy was informed by the fact it is linked to
Design Science Research DSR paradigm which underpins the philosophy of this project. The
general methodology for design research by Vaishnavi and Kuechler (2015) was employed to
guide the activities of the project. In the development phase of the general method for design
research, we applied software reengineering methodology to develop four algorithms using legacy
telephone software as the base software.
The design was subjected to experimental evaluation to check to on functionality as per ED 137 B
VOIP standard and usability. The form of experimental evaluation used was a simulation, and with
this, we used SIP tester simulation software. The results of the evaluation showed that some
functionality of the standard were met. The above proved that using open source software; we can
be able to design an IP based Voice Communication Control System for Air Traffic Control.
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University of Nairobi
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