Operational integrity monitoring for military vehicle's integrated vetronics architecture

Abdulmasih, David; Oikonomidis, Panagiotis; Annis, R.; Stipidis, Elias; Charchalakis, Periklis

doi:10.1049/cp.2011.0254

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“…In the last decade, military land vehicles have transitioned to state-of-the-art digital platforms that include advanced communication, situational awareness and battle management mission systems [15]- [18]. The development of open electronic architecture approaches for these vehicles, such as the NATO Generic Vehicle Architecture [19], has facilitated mission system networking and integration.…”

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Self-Adaptive Software Systems in Contested and Resource-Constrained Environments: Overview and Challenges

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Self-adaptive approaches are a promising to address the dynamic and uncertain nature of the environments where today's complex systems operate. In particular, systems operating in military environments, during crises or under unexpected conditions need to address critical concerns related to resource sparsity and the unstable and uncertain nature of exchanged information. Despite a plethora of self-adaptive and autonomic approaches proposed in the last decade, very few have been designed for or evaluated in contested environments, where adversarial action in the communications domain leads to stale or incomplete information, or in resource-constrained environments, where resources are either limited or required by a large number of components. These conditions are where self-adaptability to aid human operators is needed the most. To better understand self-adaptation in contested and resource-constrained environments, we conducted a systematic literature review of publications over the last decade. We conduct our review through the lens of a military environment, where contention, both physical and from a resource, be it computational or communication based is at its peak. We followed the systematic literature review methodology and analysed 238 primary studies. We identified that the most frequent application domains are those where failures are frequent and costly, namely, cloud computing, web services and applications, and servers. Despite this, less than 3% of the papers considered constrained resources and stale or incomplete information and a significant focus was on developing centralised solutions instead of distributed ones throughout all papers. Very few papers (4.6%) considered environments where the information about the system components was not readily available. No papers evaluated the systems running in contested and resource-constrained environments. We present an analysis of the self-adaptive systems that consider incomplete or stale information and constrained resources, discuss their limitations and identify future areas of research. Critical research gaps include the lack of evaluation of self-adaptive approaches, including the lack of standards or formalisms to allow for the comparison of various approaches. In addition, there is a need to consider more self-* properties and non-functional requirements in order to make sure the designed system is resilient. This paper presents our review findings in detail, examines how self-adaptation happens in contested and resource-constrained environments, and discusses the identified research gaps.INDEX TERMS Adaptability, contested environments, self-adaptive systems, self-organization.

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Self-Adaptive Software Systems in Contested and Resource-Constrained Environments: Overview and Challenges

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“…Particular effort was placed in designing a framework that could address, at a system design level, issues related with safety and security aspects of feedback control systems. Current military land systems increasingly rely on data networks to connect a vast array of vetronics (vehicle electronics) subsystems [2]. Therefore, it would be beneficial to consider the design of such feedback control systems while also taking into consideration safety and security aspects (e.g.…”

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Safety and security aware framework for the development of feedback control systems

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Charchalakis

Stipidis

2015

10th IET System Safety and Cyber-Security Conference 2015

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The need to address safety and security related aspects at an early stage of development of feedback control systems (FCS) has been identified as vital for the optimisation of the development process of military land systems. These systems often include network enabled capability (NEC) allowing the use of electronics architectures to integrate different sub-systems. However, this increased integration capability is associated with magnified safety risks and compromise from cyber attacks [4]. This paper discusses how the process of developing FCS for military land systems could benefit from the use of a framework that addresses safety and security issues at the system modelling level. The core part of the suggested framework consists of a Simulink model to be used by design engineers as a blueprint for the development of a modular FCS that are expected to feature a modular architecture with dedicated sub-modules for the processing of data related to safety and security aspects. Since the FCS developed through the use of framework features a modular architecture, the anticipated cost incurred in the design of the associated modular safety case is expected to be reduced, leading to an overall reduction of the cost of the re-certification process [1].

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In-vehicle monitoring and management for military vehicles’ integrated vetronics architectures

Abdulmasih

Oikonomidis

Annis

et al. 2014

Journal of Systems Architecture

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Operational integrity monitoring for military vehicle's integrated vetronics architecture

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Self-Adaptive Software Systems in Contested and Resource-Constrained Environments: Overview and Challenges

Self-Adaptive Software Systems in Contested and Resource-Constrained Environments: Overview and Challenges

Safety and security aware framework for the development of feedback control systems

In-vehicle monitoring and management for military vehicles’ integrated vetronics architectures

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