A Service Oriented Architecture Approach for Global Positioning System Quality of Service Monitoring

Abstract

This research focuses on the development of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for monitoring the Global Positioning System (GPS) Standard Positioning Service in near real time utilizing a Mobile Crowd Sensing technique. This SOA development employed a Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) approach to evaluate a set of MCS architecture variants. Ultimately this research provides a feasibility analysis for utilization of mobile distributed sensors to provide situational awareness of the GPS Quality of Service (QoS). First this research provides justification for development of a new monitoring architecture and defines the scope of the SOA. Then an exploration of current SOA, MBSE, and Geospacial System Information (GIS) research was conducted. Next a Discrete Event Simulation (DES) of the MCS participant interactions was developed and simulated within AGIs Systems Toolkit. The architecture performance analysis was executed using a GIS software package known as ArcMap. Finally, this research concludes with an analysis if the proposed architecture would be suitable for detecting sources of GPS interference within an AoI.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 24, 2016
Accession Number
AD1054508

Entities

People

  • Stuart A. Everson

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Communication Systems
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Processing
  • Databases
  • Department Of Defense
  • Detectors
  • Digital Data
  • Engineering
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Global Navigation Satellite Systems
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Mobile Devices
  • Mobile Operating Systems
  • Mobile Phones
  • Navigation
  • Programming Languages
  • Reliability
  • Web Service
  • World Geodetic System

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Technology.
  • Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Space