A combat management system middleware based on CORBA

Author

Kutlusan, Aykut ; Altmidort, Nadir ; Oruk, Tufan ; Duman, Alpay

Author_Institution

YAZGEM, Istanbul, Turkey

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

345

Lastpage

354

Abstract

The Turkish Navy (TN) has started an initiative to build a new middleware as part of a generic CMS development project named GENESIS. This middleware should satisfy the requirements of CMS applications that should run in a heterogeneous distributed computing environment. It should also be flexible enough to support existing applications. The approach was to use Off-The-Shelf (OTS) components and open standards to build a portable and maintainable middleware while preserving functionality, performance and reliability requirements of CMS applications. This middleware is implemented by using CORBA and its Event and Naming services. Also, a portable operating system (OS) wrapper framework named Adaptive Communication Environment (ACE) is used. During the development process, it has been observed that the right mixture of OTS and in-house software cuts down the development time to a great extent without sacrificing functionality, performance and reliability requirements

Keywords

client-server systems; distributed object management; military computing; naming services; network operating systems; software portability; software reliability; Adaptive Communication Environment; CORBA; Event services; GENESIS project; Naming services; Turkish Navy; combat management system; heterogeneous distributed computing; middleware; off-the-shelf components; open standards; portable operating system; software performance; software portability; software reliability; wrapper framework; Application software; Collision mitigation; Distributed computing; Distributed databases; Hardware; Maintenance; Middleware; Operating systems; Software systems; Weapons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Objects and Applications, 2000. Proceedings. DOA '00. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Antwerp

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0819-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DOA.2000.874206

Filename

874206