UTM Service Wrappers for Secure Microservice Data Exchange
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing complexity of air traffic management due to the growing presence of unmanned aircrafts requires a structured and standardized system for data management and performance standards to ensure safety, security, and scalability across global airspace, particularly in shared environments with manned aircraft.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of an unmanned traffic management (UTM) system that utilizes service wrappers to standardize data interfaces and enforce end-to-end performance standards, allowing for modular and interchangeable microservices and macroservices, ensuring safety-critical compliance through authentication and cryptographic methods, and providing a flexible platform for dynamic service selection and infrastructure switching.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a structured and standardized system for data management is implemented to ensure safety and security, then reliability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system is divided into independent microservices that can be developed, deployed, and managed separately. Each microservice handles specific air traffic management functions, allowing the complex system to be broken down into manageable components while maintaining overall reliability through standardized interfaces and protocols.
Solution Approach 2:
Service wrappers are introduced as intermediary components that standardize data interfaces between microservices and the UTM platform. These wrappers enforce performance standards and authentication protocols, ensuring safety and security without requiring direct complex interactions between all system components.
2Adaptability or versatility
If modular and interchangeable microservices are used to provide flexibility and scalability, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Service wrappers provide universal standardized interfaces that work across all microservices in the system. This allows different microservices to be interchangeably deployed while maintaining consistent data management and performance standards, enabling flexibility and scalability without proportionally increasing system complexity.
3Reliability
If end-to-end performance standards and authentication methods are enforced to ensure safety-critical compliance, then reliability is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
Service wrappers automatically enforce performance standards and authentication protocols without requiring manual intervention. The system self-regulates compliance through automated verification and enforcement mechanisms, maintaining safety-critical standards while reducing operational burden.
4Speed
If real-time data processing is implemented for safety-critical functions, then speed is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Real-time processing requirements are distributed across multiple specialized microservices, each handling specific safety-critical functions. This segmentation allows parallel processing of different data streams, achieving real-time response speeds while managing complexity through modular architecture.
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AI summary
A platform for unmanned traffic management (UTM) may include a compute system and infrastructure that standardizes and controls aviation data transmitted between service providers, where each service is abstracted from the platform through a service wrapper that enforces the preset data standards. The service wrappers enforce restrictions on the performance and configuration of data from the service provider. The service wrappers are customized to respective services (such as tracking, terrain, or weather), but provide a standard point of interface, security, and trust between the platform and any services directed to provide a similar function. Upon the request of a user or service providers to obtain aviation data, the UTM platform selects a service providing that aviation data, and provides connection data to the user while protecting the security and integrity of the data. Computationally-intensive tasks that require data from supporting services can be bundled or grouped together as a single service with a service wrapper providing a single point of interface. Bundled services can be designed to as to maintain verifiability and/or safety-criticality of the data passed therethrough.