OMG and Air Traffic Management Systems CARDAMOM: a new generation of OMG standard Middleware

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OMG and Air Traffic Management Systems CARDAMOM
a new generation of OMG standard Middleware

• OMG, 2003 November
• Presentation by Robert C. Brown
• Director Business Innovation
• AMS

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Architectural Issues of ATM Systems

• ATM systems deployed have different architectural
  features, although operationally very similar in
  performance and function
• The future of Air Traffic calls for increases in
  capacity (x3 by 2020), efficiency (lower cost to
  those who fly, punctuality for the passenger),
  safety (x9 by 2020)
• The airspace structures follow National
  Boundaries, resulted in fragmentation and
  inefficiencies
• Interoperability is increasingly recognised as
  supporting future needs, including a shift in
  operating paradigm to reach the predicted needs
• Work is underway at EU level to promulgate the
  Single European Sky Regulation that moves along
  the lines of meeting the future need of European
  Skies

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OMG Standards are a solution

• RD projects by the EU such as Avenue and Gate to
  Gate, initiatives by EUROCONTROL such as OATA,
  initiatives by EUROCAE in WG 59 and 61 have
  identified CORBA middleware as the Distributed
  ATM Services socket into which ATM components may
  be plugged
• Communication Services (Fixed and Mobile)
  provide for a seamless end to end transmission of
  Services

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IoP aspects related to ATM

• Interoperability is a functional attribute of a
  complex, articulated safety critical system
• The Performance Review Committee of Eurocontrol
  has successfully tackled the issue of delays
  flow management needs to be functionally tied
  into Flight Data Processing, into Arrival and
  Departure Management, into the Flight Management
  System and into the Air Operations Centre-IoP!
• Interoperability granularity of the complex ATM
  system FMS relates to FDP through data link.
  Interoperability in this instance branches out
  into a wide spectrum of communication systems and
  services

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The ATM Challenge

• The ATM Systems architect is posed with a
  challenge that goes beyond the technological, as
  the systems implemented according to such
  architecture will condition the modus operandi of
  Stakeholders,
• ATM Systems Manufacturing Industries in Europe
  (among which are AMS and THALES ATM) intend to
  adopt an open architecture that hosts present
  legacy applications, incorporating innovative
  applications as they become progressively
  available,
• The Companies are also working on a new
  generation of Middleware based on independent
  company approaches to an evolution of CORBA3,
• Planned to become a Common Language for ATM
  domain modelling, including process and tools and
  to save 80 of the cost that would have to be
  sustained to reuse large distributed system
  components.

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The ATM Business Case

• By adopting the MDE approach, fully compliant
  with the OMG/MDA standard, the intrinsic
  complexity of the future ATM system will be
  reduced, improving the transparency between
  Operational Requirements and ATM system
  specifications through model weaving and
  transformation to expedite the industrial process
  that leads to the Development phase.
• The Architectures we are working on will have
  these requirements in their baseline. Their
  complexity will be greater than anything deployed
  to date. Their level of automation will
  contribute to optimised use of the airspace,
  supporting 4D Trajectories from Gate to Gate,
  Free Flight, ASAS, all weather curved precision
  approaches, CDM
• Investments will not be substantially different
  than present practices due to the reuse of
  applications and to the MDE approach.
• Reluctance of Controllers to adopt the new ATM
  systems will be mitigated by such initial re-use.

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CARDAMOM

• AMS and THALES Companies have started the joint
  development of a new generation of Middleware for
  their large-scale software intensive, real time
  and fault tolerant distributed systems with
  Corba3
• In order to ensure large-scale dissemination and
  usage of this MIDDLEWARE, it has been agreed to
  distribute CARDAMOM through Open Source Scheme
  (OSS)
• The eFDP/fi, currently under development by
  Thales and AMS for France and Italy, is based on
  CARDAMOM

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CARDAMOM - Services
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Cardamom - Proposed Organization

• CARDAMOM has to satisfy conflicting constraints
• Wide dissemination and marketing vs Controlled
  evolution
• Open Source vs Industrial support
• CARDAMOM solves the issue through a structured
  management as shown in the following

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Cardamom - Start Up Roadmap

• Interim releases, starting from V0, targeted as
  Open Source
• 2004-Q1 Finalisation of proper organisation,
  licensing condition, packaging and distribution
  for Community Version
• 2004-Q3 Finalisation of proper organisation,
  licensing condition, packaging and distribution
  for Enterprise Version