Interoperability and Security Support for Heterogeneous COTS/GOTS/Legacy Component-Based Architecture

Abstract

There is a need for Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS), Government-off-the-shelf (GOTS) and legacy components to interoperate in a secure distributed computing environment in order to facilitate the development of evolving applications. This thesis researches existing open standards solutions to the distributed component integration problem and proposes an application framework that supports application wrappers and a uniform security policy external to the components. This application framework adopts an Object Request Broker (ORB) standard based on Microsoft Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM). Application wrapper architectures are used to make components conform to the ORB standard. The application framework is shown to operate in a common network architecture. A portion of the Naval Integrated Tactical Environmental System I (NITES I) is used as a case study to demonstrate the utility of this distributed component integration methodology (DCIM).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA383767

Entities

People

  • James O. Allen
  • Tam M. Tran

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Communication Channels
  • Computer Access Control
  • Computer Network Security
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Program Documentation
  • Computer Program Reliability
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Distributed Computing
  • Network Architecture
  • Network Protocols
  • Network Science
  • Operating Systems
  • Security Protocols
  • Transport Protocols
  • Web Browsers

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Software Engineering.