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Partitioning in avionics architectures: requirements, mechanisms, and assurance
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Rushby, John |
| Copyright Year | 1999 |
| Description | Automated aircraft control has traditionally been divided into distinct "functions" that are implemented separately (e.g., autopilot, autothrottle, flight management); each function has its own fault-tolerant computer system, and dependencies among different functions are generally limited to the exchange of sensor and control data. A by-product of this "federated" architecture is that faults are strongly contained within the computer system of the function where they occur and cannot readily propagate to affect the operation of other functions. More modern avionics architectures contemplate supporting multiple functions on a single, shared, fault-tolerant computer system where natural fault containment boundaries are less sharply defined. Partitioning uses appropriate hardware and software mechanisms to restore strong fault containment to such integrated architectures. This report examines the requirements for partitioning, mechanisms for their realization, and issues in providing assurance for partitioning. Because partitioning shares some concerns with computer security, security models are reviewed and compared with the concerns of partitioning. |
| File Size | 4158109 |
| Page Count | 75 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19990052867 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t0vq7w32h |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1999-06-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Flight Management Systems Distributed Processing Fault Tolerance Partitions Mathematics Information Flow Automatic Flight Control Automatic Pilots Architecture Computers Computer Information Security Avionics Containment Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
