1553 emulation over ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) - A hybrid avionics communications architecture

Author

Parish, D.J. ; Briggs, R. ; Chambers, D. ; Hunter, C. ; Kelsall, N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Loughborough Univ. of Technol., UK

Volume

13

Issue

3

fYear

1998

fDate

3/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

34

Lastpage

39

Abstract

The issue of meeting the higher communications requirements of future aircraft avionics systems in an incremental manner is addressed. A communications architecture is proposed which is based upon a switched network technology from the telecommunications area asynchronous transfer mode (ATM). However, the major step of migrating all existing avionics equipment into an ATM compliant form is avoided by the process of "emulating" a current avionics data bus such as MIL-STD-1553B over an ATM network. This allows current 1553 subsystems to co-exist with ATM compliant equipment on a single physical ATM network.

Keywords

aerospace computing; aircraft communication; asynchronous transfer mode; avionics; digital simulation; local area networks; military standards; system buses; virtual machines; 1553 emulation; 1553 subsystems; ATM compliant equipment; MIL-STD-1553B; aircraft avionics; asynchronous transfer mode; hybrid avionics communications architecture; Aerospace electronics; Aircraft; Asynchronous transfer mode; Communication switching; Delay; Emulation; Switching circuits; Telecommunication switching; Telecommunication traffic; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8985

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/62.659862

Filename

659862