An integration framework for airport automation systems

Author

Cheng, Ningjiang Jay

Author_Institution

Mitre Corp., McLean, VA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

37165

Abstract

A large airport typically has dozens of automation systems that require automatic information interchange among them to ensure safe and efficient airport operations. However, those systems were often developed by different vendors and were not designed to be interoperable, which makes systems integration a very complicated matter. Ad hoc point-to-point integration often proves to be problematic. An integration framework is needed to avoid "spaghetti integration". This paper presents an integration framework for defining the integration information requirements and designing the systems integration architecture

Keywords

aerospace computing; airports; business communication; business data processing; computer networks; open systems; airport automation systems; airport communication systems; airport information systems; business information; business integration service layer; data access component layer; database network interface layer; end-to-end network connectivity; information interchange; integration framework; integration information model; interoperability; large-scale airport systems integration; middleware framework layer; network communications layer; subsystems layer; systems integration architecture; Airports; Costs; Decision making; Design automation; FAA; Middleware; Privatization; Procurement; Teamwork; Unified modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Avionics Systems, 2001. DASC. 20th Conference

Conference_Location

Daytona Beach, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7034-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DASC.2001.964256

Filename

964256