Communication and navigation for safe and efficient air traffic

Standards for Aviation

With its interdisciplinary research, DLR covers the entire aviation transport system: from individual components to the technical challenges of entire aircraft and the complex interplay in air traffic. A total of 22 institutes and facilities develop solutions for innovative technologies and processes in order to open up new perspectives for aviation.

The Institute of Communication and Navigation conducts research into innovative data connection technologies for future communication infrastructures and navigation functionalities.

Projects from the topic area

New standards for digital aeronautical radio

LDACS - Communications for Aviation

LDACS stands for L-band Digital Aeronautical Communications System. It is the upcoming standard for digital terrestrial aeronautical radio and therefore an important data link technology within the future communications infrastructure for aviation.

Head of the LDACS standardization group in the ICAO

LDACS - Standardization

LDACS stands for L-band Digital Aeronautical Communications System. It is the upcoming standard for digital terrestrial aeronautical radio and therefore an important data link technology within the future communications infrastructure for aviation.

New concepts for communication, navigation and surveillance in air traffic

MIAR - Make I-CNS A Reality

Today's civil aviation is a rapidly growing market. This results in an increasing density of air traffic, which still mainly relies on analog communication and GNSS for navigation purposes. To enable future air traffic management, DLR is developing new concepts for communication, navigation and surveillance (CNS).