Seamless and Secure Federation Among Highly and Loosely Connected Infospaces (INFOFED)

Abstract

This report describes research conducted toward developing a federated approach to interconnecting multiple information spaces to enable data interchange. We propose a set of interfaces to facilitate dynamic, runtime discovery and federation of information spaces. We also report on integrating with the KAoS policy and domain services framework to realize policy-based control over the federation and exchange of information. Our approach allows clients to transparently perform publish, subscribe, and query operations across all the federated information spaces. We have integrated with three existing JBI implementations-- Apollo from the Air Force Research Laboratory, Mercury from General Dynamics and AIMS (Advanced Information Management System) from Northrop Grumman. Both Mercury and AIMS are independent implementations that comply with the JBI architecture. Most recently, we have integrated with Phoenix, a fully SoA (Service-oriented Architecture) based approach to information management. As part of this effort, we identified changes that needed to be made to the Phoenix architecture and implementation to support federation, and refactored the federation capabilities into a set of services that can be enabled on demand within Phoenix.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA546789

Entities

People

  • Andrzej Uszok
  • Niranjan Suri

Organizations

  • Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Channel Capacity
  • Communication Channels
  • Computer Networks
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Contracts
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Processing
  • Information Retrieval
  • Information Systems
  • Military Research
  • Network Centric Warfare
  • Network Topology
  • Operating Systems
  • Transport Protocols
  • Virtual Machines

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Electrochemical Surface Science
  • Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Space