US and European interoperability in the aviation domain

This paper describes the work that was done by Boeing Advanced Air Traffic Management (AATM), Boeing Research & Technology Europe (BR&TE), Selex Sistemi Integrati, and Boeing Networked Systems Technology (NST) on the European Commission SWIM-SUIT Interoperability project. This work was sponsored by the European Commission and the US FAA. The goal of this project was the implementation and demonstration of SOA compliant mediation and distribution services for the exchange of live surveillance, flight plans, and flight objects between US and European aviation systems. The mediation service provided transformation between flight data defined by ASDI, ERAM and ICOG schemas. The Surveillance data was represented using FAA and Eurocontrol schemas. In addition to operational capabilities, this work featured the use of an improved distributed messaging technology developed by IBM known as Responsive, Reliable, Real-Time (R3) messaging. R3 messaging provides deterministic Quality of Service (QoS) overlays for use in a federated Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) environment. In addition to the R3 technology, the project featured the use of Mashups. Mashups provide the capability for a user to dynamically combine data and services in user specified configurations, resulting in user defined lightweight network-enabled applications. This paper shows how the mediation, distribution, and messaging services were implemented, example results, and how this work could be leveraged to facilitate US and European interoperability in the aviation domain.