METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING DATA IN A NETWORK OF AIRCRAFT IN FLIGHT

摘要

In a communications network comprising aircraft in flight and at least one ground station, which constitute communication nodes of the network, data are transmitted from a source node to a destination node following a non-predetermined path through the network that comprises at least one node which is a so-called intermediate aircraft. Before transmitting data from a transmitting node to at least one receiving node, it envisages a step of selecting the receiving node defining a portion of said path without knowledge of the next portion of said path. (Figure 2)