28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 23 - 28 September 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Paper ICAS2012-P8.6

BALANCING OPERATOR PRIVACY AND FUTURE AIRSPACE SURVEILLANCE

K. Sampigethaya, R. Poovendran*, S. Taylor**
Boeing Research & Technology, USA; *Univ. of Washington, USA; **Boeing Business Jets, USA

Keywords: privacy weaknesses, surveillance, aviation standards

This paper studies privacy issues of general and business aviation aircraft operators in next-generation air traffic systems. For the Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) technology used in augmenting or replacing radar based airspace surveillance, the paper identifies privacy weaknesses, discusses existing aviation standards, and proposes mitigations to close gaps.

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