INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS AND RECOMMENDED PRACTICES AERONAUTICAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ANNEX 10 TO THE CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION VOLUME II — COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS (PART I — DIGITAL DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PART Il — VOICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS) FIRST EDITION — JULY 1995 The first edition of Annex 10, Volume III was adopted by the Council on 20 March 1995 and becomes applicable on 9 November 1995. For information regarding the applicability of the Standards and Recommended Practices, see Foreword. INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATIONAMENDMENTS ‘The issue of amendments is announced regularly in the ICAO Journal and in the monthly Supplement to the Catalogue of ICAO Publications and Audio-visual Training Aids, which holders of this publication should consult. The space below is provided to keep a record of such amendments. RECORD OF AMENDMENTS AND CORRIGENDA ‘AMENDMENTS CORRIGENDA Date Date Entered Date Date Entered No. | applicable | entered by No. | ofissue entered by n 71196 72 | ener 73 | ent. va | antes 75 | anvoo 76 wi1i01 nu9s ac)FOREWORD... CHAPTER 1. CHAPTER 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS, PART I — DIGITAL DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS Definitions General. .. (to be developed) CHAPTER 3. Aeronautical Telecommunication Network ...... 3.1. Definitions. 3.2 Introduction. 33 General 3.4 System level requirements 3.5 _AIN applications requirements : 3.6 ATN communication service requirements 3.7. ATN naming and addressing requirements 3.8 AT systems management requirements 3.9 _ATN security requirements. . Tables for Chapter 3 Figure for Chapter 3 CHAPTER 4. Aeronautical Mobile-Satellite Service 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 Definitions and descriptions of channel types; general; system capabilities . Broadband RF characteristics. RF channel characteristics .. Channel format types and rates. Link layer P channel and R channel protocols... Link layer T channel and sub-band C channel protocols Satellite subnetwork layer Cireuit-mode services... Aircraft earth station (ABS) management. 4.10 Ground earth station (GES) management Tables for Chapter 4 Figures for Chapter 4 Appendix 1 to Chapter 4. Response masks of A-BPSK and A-QPSK filters Appendix 2 to Chapter 4. Signal unit formats, ANNEX 10 — VOLUME IIT Page (vii) 4H 4H 4H ay 4M y 23 29 45 60. 65 B 102 121 123, Appendix 3 to Chapter 4. Signal unit field coding and designation ; Appendix 4 to Chapter 4, ‘Time-out values. Appendix 5 to Chapter 4, Interworking telephony event mapping. = Appendix 6 to Chapter 4. AMSQ)S configuration parameters. ceseeees Appendix 7 to Chapter 4, definition ‘Voice encoding algorithm Introduction. . Requirements for numeric calculations Audio input characteristics. . Encoding process definition... Decoding process definition Tables for Appendix 7 Figures for Appendix 7. vaepo CHAPTER 5. SSR Mode § Air-ground Data Link 5.1 Definitions relating to the Mode S subnetwork, Mode $ subnetwork characteristics 52 5.3 DCE and XDCE state tables. 5.4 Mode S packet formats. Tables for Chapter 5 Figures for Chapter 5 CHAPTER 6. VHF Air-ground Digital Link (VDL) 6.1 Definitions and system capabilities 6.2. System characteristics of the ground installation : 6.3 System characteristics of the aircraft installation : 6.4 Physical layer protocols and services 6.5 Link layer protocols and services 6.6 Subnetwork layer protocols and services... 6.7 The VDL mobile subnetwork dependent convergence function (SNDCF) .. 68 Voice unit for Mode 3. 69 VDL Mode 4 ‘Tables for Chapter 6 Figures for Chapter 6 Appendix to Chapter 6. References. (wi) Page 143 156A, 157 197 198 198 198. 198 199 204 207 216 218 218 219 247 248, 249 om 279 279 281 282 282A 2826 2824 282H 2821 2821 282M 282N 282P anor No 76Annex 10 — Aeronautical Telecommunications Volume II Page Page CHAPTER 7. Subnetwork Interconnection . 282R CHAPTER 2. Aeronautical Mobile Service 340 (to be developed) 2.1. Air-ground VHF communication system characteristics 340 CHAPTER 8. AFTN Network...... 283 2.2 System characteristics of the ground installation 340 8.1 Definitions. : 283 2.3. System characteristics of the airborne 8.2. Technical provisions relating to installation 341 teletypewriter apparanis and circuits 2.4 Single sideband (SSB) HF communication used in the AFIN : 283 system characteristics for use in the 8.3. Terminal equipment associated with aeronautical mobile service 343 aeronautical radioteletypewriter channels operating in the band 2.5 ~ 30 MHz 285 8.4 Characteristics of interregional CHAPTER 3. SELCAL System 348 AFS circuits 285 8.5 Technical provisions relating to ATS ‘message transmission . 286 CHAPTER 4. Aeronautical Speech Circuits ....... 349 8.6 Technical provisions relating to international ‘ground-ground data interchange at medium 4.1 Technicat provisions relating to international and higher signalling rates. 286 aeronautical speech circuit switching and signalling for ground-ground applications 349 CHAPTER 9. Aircraft Addressing System 329 CHAPTER 5. Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) Appendix to Chapter 9. A World-wide Scheme for Search and Rescue . ree 350 for the Allocation, Assignment and Application of Aircraft Addresses. .. ce 330 5.1 General. 350 5.2. Specification for the 121.5 MHz component 1. General... ae 330 of emergency locator transmitters (ELT) 2. Description of the scheme 330 for search and rescue. 350 3. Management of the scheme . . 330 5.3. Specification for the 406 MHz component 4. Allocation of aircraft addresses 330 of emergency locator transmitters (ELT) 5. Assignment of aircraft addresses 330 for search and rescue. 351 6. Application of aircraft addresses 331 Table 9-1. Allocation of aircraft addresses Appendix 1 to Chapter 5, Emergency Locator to States. : 7 - 332 ‘Transmitter Coding. ......... 353 CHAPTER 10. Point-to-Multipoint 1. General. 393 Communications : 337 2. ELT coding 353 10.1. Service via satellite for the dissemination of aeronautical information 337 ATTACHMENTS 10.2. Service via satelite for the dissemination of WAFS products 337 Attachment A to Part I — Guidance material for aeronautical mobile-satellite service 387 CHAPTER 11 HF Data Link 338 1. Introduction . : cece 357 11.1 Definitions and system capabilities 338 LL Overview .....esetcceersseeees 357 11.2. HF data link system 338 12 Levels of capability. ........ 357 11.3 HF data link protocol 338A 2, Broadband RF characteristics... 358 114 Ground management sub-system 338F 2.1 Use of AMS(R)S bands 358 2.2 Frequency accuracy and compensation. 358 2.3. Aircraft earth station antenna PART Il — VOICE COMMUNICATION characteristics 359 SYSTEMS 24 Receiver requirements. 359 2.5 Transmitter requirements . 360 CHAPTER 1. Definitions. 339 6 Interference 361 avon co) No. 76Table of Contents RF channel characteristics . . . 3.1 Modulation characteristics 3.2. Bounds on radiated power spectral density. 3.3. Demodulator performance . 3.4 Acquisition delay .........0.00.ee Channel format types and data rate 4.1 General... 42° Pehannel ......... 43° R channel 44° T channel 45° Cchannel ..... Link layer P channel and R channel 5.2 SU set generation : 5.3. SUs transmission according to precedence ; 54 P-channel protocol 5.5 R channel protocol . . Link layer T channel and sub-band C channel protocols 6.1 General 62 SU set generation 63 Tehannel transmission protocol . 64 T channel reservation protocol. 6.5 Sub-band C channel to-aircraft and from-aircraft protocol Satellite subnetwork layer 7.1 General provisions 7.2 Packet data performance ........... 73 Satellite subnetwork dependent protocol services and operations. .... 74 180 8208 DCE protocel operations. 7.5. Management interface - Circuit-mode services..... 8.1 Circuit-mode voice signalling protocols an 82. Interworking of circuit-mode services with other Voice networks . 83 Implementing satelite voice in the ATS environment . 84° Temrestrial voice network considerations 8.5 Implementing the group call/oroadcast functions . cee 8.6 Implementing the call registration function 8.7 Notes oa the abbreviated air-origination procedure... 8.8 Circuit-mode access delay performance 8.9 Subjective voice quality evaluation . 366 366 367 367 367 368 368 368 368 369 370 372 372 372 373 375 378 378 328 378 380 381 383 384 384 385 385 386 Annex 10 — Aeronautical Telecommunications 9. Aircraft earth station (AES) management 9.1 General. ; 9.2 AES management interfaces. 9.3. AES management functions 10. Ground earth station (GES) management. ... 10.1 General. . 10.2. GES management architecture 10.3 GES management interfaces. 10.4 GES management functions 10.5. Considerations for GES services Tables for Attachment A..... Figures for Attachment A...... Appendix to Attachment A. Performance analysis... ee ecco — Attachment B to Part I — Guidance material for the VF Digital Link (VDL) ee (VDL) . SopeeaSHEee 2. System description 3. VDL principles : 3.1 Communications transfer principles 3.2. VDL quality of service for ATN routing ...... 4 YDL ground station network concept 41 Access . 4.2. Institutional issues conceming VDL ground station network operators 4.3. VDL ground station equipment ..... 4.4 — Ground station siting. 4.5 Ground station frequency engineering .... 4.6 Ground station connection to intermediate systems 5. VDL airborne operating conc 5.1 Avionics 52. VDL avionics certification .. 5.3. Registration of aircraft with VDL network operators . - Figure for Attachment B.... Attachment A to Part I — Guidance material for communication systems 1. VHF communications 2. SELCAL system........ Page 387 387 387 387 389 389) 389 390 390 393 395 402 419 423, 423 423 424 424 404 4u4 424 424 425 425 426 426 426 426 4z7 429 429 430 zawoo No. 75