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Todays‘ traffic support environments are distributed by nature. In many cases the monitoring, control and guidance of traffic is effected by a federation of coordinating centers, often managed by different organizations, using differing local IT technology and system architecture. Despite the federative character of such systems, maintenance of a consistent overall traffic state is indispensable for a safe operation. This project develops a new type of middleware supporting federative systems
in the domain of Air Traffic Control (ATC), using OMG‘s DDS (Data Distribution Service) standard as contributor.
Air traffic is by nature crossing borders and organizations. The supporting infrastructure represents a federative distributed system of independent Air Traffic Service Units, typically each with its own proprietary system architecture. Interaction between the centers is taking place over dedicated protocols, often organized as a mesh of 1:1 bilateral data exchanges.
This contribution gives an overview of the ongoing efforts to standardize this data exchange. At the core is a data-centric view, using a shared virtual Flight Object as the IT counterpart of a real flight. It permits a uniform way to access and update a flight’s static and dynamic attributes. A middleware is presented that implements this abstraction and maps it onto a physical level, employing DDS (Data Distribution Service) technology for the 1:N dissemination of flight data.