• DocumentCode
    2588489
  • Title

    Connecting commercial computers to avionics systems

  • Author

    Laarouchi, Youssef ; Deswarte, Yves ; Powell, David ; Arlat, Jean ; De Nadai, Eric

  • Author_Institution
    LAAS, Univ. de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    23-29 Oct. 2009
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we present two case studies identified for new aircraft generations in which bidirectional communications are carried between onboard and off-board computers. These two case studies deal respectively with flight parameter calculation and enhanced maintenance operations for future aircraft. We emphasize the safety and security challenges in such communications, and propose a safe architecture allowing the connection of commercial computers to avionics systems, without altering any embedded software component behavior.
  • Keywords
    aerospace safety; avionics; security of data; software architecture; avionics systems; bidirectional communications; commercial computers; embedded software component; flight parameter calculation; maintenance operations; safe architecture; safety challenges; security challenges; Aerospace electronics; Aircraft; Bidirectional control; Communication system security; Computer architecture; Computer security; Embedded computing; Embedded software; Joining processes; Software safety;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 2009. DASC '09. IEEE/AIAA 28th
  • Conference_Location
    Orlando, FL
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4078-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/DASC.2009.5347440
  • Filename
    5347440