5G wareforms design for aeronautical communications

With the incoming of the new era of 5G mobile communications and Internet of Things (IoT), the aeronautical communications for aircraft, Air-to-Ground (A/G) communications and Air-to-Air (A/A) communications, confronts with new challenges of high safety, large transmission capacity, low latency, high elasticity, and synthetic service providing etc. In this paper, the new requirement and challenges of future aeronautical communications are reviewed. Moreover, the future aeronautical communications architecture is envisioned and the typical wareforms recommended for 5G are deeply analyzed. Finally, the transition from the current aeronautical datalinks is prospectively discussed.