Simulation and Analysis of Civil Aircraft Cabin Core Network Architecture based on Daisy Chain

Abstract

With the rapid development of electronic technology, the application of civil aircraft cabin electronics is becoming more and more advanced. The traditional cabin core network architecture can no longer meet current cabin application requirements. Meanwhile, there are multiple of devices with duplicated functions in cabin of civil aircraft, and the number of each device with duplicated functions is very large. In order to solve the problem of repetitive deployment of a large number of devices with duplicated functions in the cabin system, the civil aircraft cabin core network architecture is proposed to adopt a two-level daisy chain network topology which has many advantages such as high robustness, high scalability and less cables. In the design phase of civil aircraft cabin core network architecture, modeling and simulation of the network architecture through simulation tools is an important means to study, predict, justify and judge the network performance. In this paper, a two-level daisy chain network architecture model with about 67 nodes for civil aircraft cabin core network is developed and the network performance of the model mentioned above is simulated through OPNET simulation tool in order to perform a trade-off analysis and evaluate the cabin core network architecture.