A Standards-Based Approach to Distributed Air Traffic Management Simulation

Abstract

Organizations across the aviation domain are currently defining and developing a standards-based environment for sharing simulation capabilities and conducting joint experiments to meet the challenges that lie ahead for global aviation.This paper discusses an aviation community research project to define an open, standards-based set of object models, protocols, and software designed to let simulations connect via the public Internet for research and development in Air Traffic Management (ATM). Known as AviationSimNet, this environment builds on existing aviation and distributed simulation standards to simulate ATC voice and data communications. It enables distributed evaluation of concepts at reduced time and cost and lowered risks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 17, 2008
Accession Number
AD1107200

Entities

People

  • Glenn F. Roberts
  • Patricia A. Liguori

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Traffic
  • Air Traffic Control Systems
  • Air Transportation
  • Aircrafts
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Control Simulators
  • Control Systems
  • Digital Communications
  • Flight Simulators
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Systems
  • Operations Research
  • Reliability
  • Simulators
  • Voice Communications

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Aviation Safety Risk Assessment.
  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Systems Analysis and Design