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Airport Surface Network Architecture DefinitionCurrently, airport surface communications are fragmented across multiple types of systems. These communication systems for airport operations at most airports today are based dedicated and separate architectures that cannot support system-wide interoperability and information sharing. The requirements placed upon the Communications, Navigation, and Surveillance (CNS) systems in airports are rapidly growing and integration is urgently needed if the future vision of the National Airspace System (NAS) and the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS) 2025 concept are to be realized. To address this and other problems such as airport surface congestion, the Space Based Technologies Project s Surface ICNS Network Architecture team at NASA Glenn Research Center has assessed airport surface communications requirements, analyzed existing and future surface applications, and defined a set of architecture functions that will help design a scalable, reliable and flexible surface network architecture to meet the current and future needs of airport operations. This paper describes the systems approach or methodology to networking that was employed to assess airport surface communications requirements, analyze applications, and to define the surface network architecture functions as the building blocks or components of the network. The systems approach used for defining these functions is relatively new to networking. It is viewing the surface network, along with its environment (everything that the surface network interacts with or impacts), as a system. Associated with this system are sets of services that are offered by the network to the rest of the system. Therefore, the surface network is considered as part of the larger system (such as the NAS), with interactions and dependencies between the surface network and its users, applications, and devices. The surface network architecture includes components such as addressing/routing, network management, network performance and security.
Document ID
20070014985
Acquisition Source
Glenn Research Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Nguyen, Thanh C.
(Analex Corp. United States)
Eddy, Wesley M.
(Verizon Federal Network Systems, Inc. Brook Park, OH, United States)
Bretmersky, Steven C.
(Cleveland State Univ. Cleveland, OH, United States)
Lawas-Grodek, Fran
(NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
Ellis, Brenda L.
(NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
Date Acquired
August 23, 2013
Publication Date
September 1, 2006
Publication Information
Publication: Proceedings of the Sixth Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference & Workshop 2006
Subject Category
Aircraft Communications And Navigation
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
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