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Air traffic is by nature crossing borders and organizations. The supporting infrastructure represents a federative distributed system of independent Air Traffic Service Units, typically each with its own proprietary system architecture. Interaction between the centers is taking place over dedicated protocols, often organized as a mesh of 1:1 bilateral data exchanges.
This contribution gives an overview of the ongoing efforts to standardize this data exchange. At the core is a data-centric view, using a shared virtual Flight Object as the IT counterpart of a real flight. It permits a uniform way to access and update a flight’s static and dynamic attributes. A middleware is presented that implements this abstraction and maps it onto a physical level, employing DDS (Data Distribution Service) technology for the 1:N dissemination of flight data.
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Mayer, E., Fröhlich, J. (2014). A DDS-Based Middleware for Cooperation of Air Traffic Service Units. In: Sikora, A., Berbineau, M., Vinel, A., Jonsson, M., Pirovano, A., Aguado, M. (eds) Communication Technologies for Vehicles. Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains/Nets4Aircraft 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8435. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06644-8_9
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