Applying SOA Concepts to the Simulation of Aeronautical Wireless Communication

Max Ehammer, Thomas Graeupl and Carl Herbert Rokitansky

11th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS 2008)
Ottawa, Canada, April 14-17 2008

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Summary

The aeronautical environment will change significantly in the near future creating an increased need for efficient data communication. Although the general trend of the expected transformation is predictable, the details are subject to highly dynamic changes. Consequently simulations within this environment have to be able to reflect alternating requirements. By the application of service oriented archi-tecture concepts a simulation suite robust against changing requirements has been developed. It is the intention of our work to achieve this goal, while keeping the architectural complexity low and fostering the incorporation of existing simulation tools. Additionally this approach allows the de-composition of complex simulation challenges into simpler sub-tasks; large scale simulations are easy to conduct through distributed processing. However, the gain of lower complexity is bought by a certain loss of computational performance. This paper presents an application of SOA principles to the simulation of aeronautical wireless com-munication. The simulation architecture used for the as-sessment of the B-AMC aeronautical communication tech-nology is described in detail.

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